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16 - ART CARL EINSTEIN. African Sculpture.
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Estimate €300 - €400
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ART CARL EINSTEIN. African Sculpture. Orbis Pictus, Volume 7. Ernest Wasmuth A. G., Berlin, [1921]. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. Quarto, publisher’s hardback. First edition. CARL EINSTEIN. African Sculpture. Les éditions Georges Crès, 1922. 48 black-and-white photographic illustrations. Quarto, publisher’s cardboard binding. French first edition. H. CLOUZOT AND A. LEVEL. African and Oceanic Sculptures. Librairie de France, 1926. 60 black-and-white photographic illustrations. First edition. JAMES JOHNSON SWEENEY. African Negro Art. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935. Quarto, publisher’s hardback with dust jacket (preserved). 101 black-and-white illustrations taken from the collections of Fénéon; W. Arensberg; A. Derain; L. Guerre; P. Guillaume; Kahnweiler; P. Loeb; Ch. Ratton; H. Rubinstein; Tzara; … É. O. LEO FROBENIUS. History of African Civilisation. NRF, Gallimard, 1936. In-12, softback. 167 black-and-white illustrations. É. O. CARL KJERSMEIER. Ashanti-Vægtlodder. Illustrated with 100 photographs of Ashanti objects. Jul. Gjellerups Forlag, 1948. In-12 with flaps, with tears but no pages missing. É. O. ALAIN JACOB. Bronzes of Black Africa. Numerous black-and-white and colour illustrations. A.B.C. special edition, 1974. In-4, publisher’s cardboard binding, dust jacket in fair condition. É. O. WILLIAM RUBIN (ed.). Primitivism in 20th-Century Art. Flammarion, 1987. Numerous illustrations in black and white and colour. Quarto, publisher’s hardback, dust jacket in fair condition. Slipcase. É. O. Primitive Arts. Archaeology. Calmels Cohen. Hôtel Drouot auction catalogue, June 2004. 246 objects described and reproduced. First edition. Collection Vérité. Primitive Art auction catalogue. Hôtel Drouot, June 2006. Quarto, hardback. Colour illustrations, 514 objects described and illustrated, colour photographs. First edition. JACQUES KERCHACHE, JEAN-LOUIS PAUDRAT, GERMAIN VIATTE. African Art. Citadelles, 2008. Numerous black-and-white and colour illustrations. Quarto, publisher’s hardback, dust jacket in fair condition. Slipcase. First edition. The 11 volumes
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