TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de; CASTLEMAN, Riva, and Wolfgang WITTROCK (editors)

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Images of the 1890s. Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1985.

Description

• Original grey cloth, spine and front board lettered in blind. With the original illustrated dust jacket. Quarto.

• Profusely illustrated throughout, 84 colour and 207 black and white plates. A near fine copy, with pages bright and clean throughout; in a very good dust jacket with only a minor split to the bottom right corner of the jacket front panel.

• First edition, published in conjunction with the major retrospective exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, running from October 1985 to January 1986.

• Edited by Riva Castleman, Director of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at MoMA, and the prominent German art historian and dealer Wolfgang Wittrock. This extensive catalogue focuses primarily on the Toulouse-Lautrec’s graphic works, prints, and posters produced during his most prolific decade in Paris. Accompanied by critical essays, comprehensive cataloguing, bibliography, and a chronology of the artist's life.