Buy this book on-line TOPOLSKI, FELIKS: : FELIKS TOPOLSKI'S PANORAMASLONDON.QUARTET BOOKS LIMITED,1977. ISBN 0704333481.
UK,slim rectangular Qrto wraps/softback
original,1st edn.NFINE.Neat,dated,blue+
black ink,gift presentation inscrptn to recto of front wrap's top,left corner.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,white background with multi-coloured (blue,purple,black,red,brown+green) handwritten/painted title/text to upper wrap, subject/artist's portrait colour photographic rear wrap with biographical detail from 'The Oxford Companion to Art'; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-dges slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal; contents bright, tight and clean,near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread,as there are no reading creases to spine/
backstrip.UK,slim rectangular Qrto wraps,1st edn (approx 290mm x 290mm),166pp [unpaginated] includes double-page,b/w artist illustrated title page with artist's biographical detail to verso of 1st page of title,contents list/table,
foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh,2 text sections: The Eye of History - The Art of Feliks Topolski by Bernard Denvir, also an illustrated collage: Topolski and Peter Ford,photography by Marcus Harrison; artist's colour plates,and a key to them,at the rear.An uncommon edn/title,particularly in as good a state/condition as this.
Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh commissioned Feliks Topolski to illustrate Queen Elizabeth's coronation (1953) and this book documents the result,which has 2 parts: one in the streets of London; and the second at Westminster Abbey.
Feliks Topolski (b.1907).Born Warsaw,Poland,son of an actor.Studied at Warsaw Academy of Fine Art,and in Paris and Italy.Settled in London (1935).Official war artist to the Polish Forces (1940-45); a British subject since 1947.Since then he has received many public and large-scale commissions for easel paintings and murals, including 20 pictures of English writers for the University of Texas (1961-62).and of the Coronation for Buckingham Palace.His graphic work in pen and ink or pencil,sometimes with added colour or halftone washes,is linear and expressionist and has close affinities with his painting.He has contributed to many BBC television programmes and has designed theatrical costumes and sets.
Awarded the Gold Medal of Honour by the International Fine Arts Council and Doctorate Honoris Causa of Jagiellonian University,Cracow, Poland (1974)).
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