Genre & Subject / Portraiture from LEFT COAST BOOKS

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1981. Cloth, 96 pages, illustrations (partly colour); 29 cm. Issued in a slipcase. Catalogue complementing the exhibition held June 18 to October 18, 1981 at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Slipcase in fine condition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS:… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. xxxiv, 275 pages, [160] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 26 cm. Originally published: 1974. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. First paperback edition. "The meaning of portraiture in the egocentric and erotic culture of Vienna at the end of the Hapsburg Empire frames Alessandra Comini's definitive, lavishly illustrated study of… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, CA: Petersen Publishing Company, 1986. Rebound in library boards, 63 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972. Cloth, 373 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with closed tears & a creased front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with 125 colour plates. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

London: Aurum Press, 2021. Cloth, 324 pages, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A timely history of the world spanning every continent, religion and era, told through the creation and destruction of 21 Statues. The statues range from the iconic to the unknown, from Hatshepsut… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. Cloth, ix, 218 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The work of portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has come to epitomize the glamor and anxiety of his age. In this innovative new study, Bruce… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002. xii, 416 pages; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In a brilliant, wry, and provocative new book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Esther Bear Gallery, 1973. [95] pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Edition of 1000 copies. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Another copy available.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Brooklyn Museum; Skira Rizzoli, 2011. Pictorial boards, 304 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, October 28, 2011to January 29, 2012; Dallas Museum of Art, March 4 to May 27, 2012; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 1 to September 16, 2012. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. Cloth, 263 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition… Read more about this item

Cologne: Taschen; Editorial Cordillera, 2004. Pictorial boards, 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. COMO NUEVO. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2014. xviii, 349 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription. A fine copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O'Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt's 1907 masterpiece -- the breathtaking portrait of… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: Published by the Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1989. 168 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, October 27, 1989 to April 1, 1990. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: Mission to America; Modernist in New York; "Folk-lorist of brush and palette"; The late 1920s: Glacier Park and St.… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. xi, 260 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corners lightly bumped. Stated First American edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. "A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and… Read more about this item

London: Thames & Hudson, 2012. Cloth, 247 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. "Lucian Freud spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting. As… Read more about this item

New York: Regency Arts Press, 2008. 1 volume (unpaged), all colour illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Crude paintings of Elizabeth Taylor by American feminist artist Kathe Burkhart, attacking misogynist attitudes towards women in general.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Cloth, 309 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "The definitive biography of one of America's greatest painters is reissued to celebrate several upcoming national exhibitions of Sargent's work. In this… Read more about this item

London: National Portrait Gallery, 2004. 176 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 28 cm. Accompanies a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 14 October 2004 to 9 January 2005. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author Barbara Bryant on the title page in the year of publication, no dedication. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Well-illustrated survey… Read more about this item

New York: Chamberlain Bros.; Penguin, 2005. 165 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Remainder mark/tail edge. Another copy available. "The story behind one of the most famous paintings in American art. The stern, sober countenance of the elderly farmer. The quiet, loyal character of his prim wife. Few other paintings are so instantly recognizable as Grant… Read more about this item

New York: Chamberlain Bros.; Penguin, 2005. 165 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "The story behind one of the most famous paintings in American art. The stern, sober countenance of the elderly farmer. The quiet, loyal character of his prim wife. Few other paintings are so instantly recognizable as Grant Wood's masterpiece American Gothic. Bestselling Chicago author… Read more about this item