THE POCKET BOOK OF OLD MASTERS - with Sixty-Four gravurre Illustrations

xiv, 112 p., illustrated. Containing 64 gravure reproductions of paintings by Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Raphael, Titan, Bruegel, Velasquez, El Greco, Rubens and Vermeer. The editor, Herman Joel Wechsler, (b. 1904 d. 1976.),was a respected New York gallery director and art historian who dedicated his professional life to bringing FINE ART to the masses. In 1934 he founded Fine Arts Reproductions (F.A.R.) Gallery, which remained in business through the next 40-plus years of his life. In 1960 he published AN INTRODUCTION TO PRINT & PRINTMAKING, followed a few years later by GREAT PRINTS & PRINTMAKERS. The book being offered, The Pocket Book of Old Masters, issued shortly after WWII, is a fine example of creative editing, combining black & white images of masterpieces with samplings from a range of texts--historical & biographical, of course, but also works of fiction-- by a variety authors, including, W. Somerset Maugham, Hendrik W. Van Loon, Walter Pater, and Thomas Craven.

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