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POORT, JOHAN: : Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 'Artiste peintre à La Haye'

NETHERLANDS.WASSENAAR.JOHAN POORT,1981.

ISBN 9023677528.

Dutch,Qrto HB,minus(?) dw/dj,1st edn. [Majority in Dutch text,but also includes some minimal French and English text.] NFINE. No owner inscrptn,but laid in loose,2 pieces of ephemera; a headed notepaper (address+telephone number) part-typewritten and part-handwritten letter to [His Excellency Mr. Philip MANSFIELD, CMG, British Ambassador, Lange Voorhout 10, 2514 THE HAGUE, Netherlands.**] from Armande Cohen**. A further piece of ephemera,a printed (in Dutch) blurb from the Director of sponsors GRABOWSKY and author Johan POORT - a Mesdag collector and connoisseur, publishing an artist's oeuvre catalogue of the book's subject's paintings - Hendrik Willem Mesdag - a Dutch marine painter. This title the first of his two books on the artist,Hendrik Willem Mesdag,'Artiste peintre à la Haye' (1981) and the second,Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915), 'Oeuvrecatalogus' (1989). Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered,original pale grey background with blue-flecked hessian cloth boards with dark blue blocked thumbnail sketch of Dutch sail fishing boat to centre of front board with artist's dark blue ink blocked facsimile signature beneath,spine/backstrip with bright,crisp,blocked dark blue lettering,rear panel plain and without decoration or lettering, and immaculate unblemished plain pale blue endpapers.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges clean without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,soild and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears to be unread,other than my own collation.UK,Qrto HB, minus(?) dw/dj,1st edn,8-156pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,author Foreword,30 sections/chapters includes an English summary of 16 of them,a profuse mixture of full,part-page b/w illus,profuse b/w thumbnail illustrations throughout the text and the book,to the rear 2 catalogue lists/tables, b/w photographic examples of the artist's changing signatures over the years,an Index, photograph credits; plus [unpaginated] half-title with small circular b/w photographic portraits of artist and his wife with a colour illustrated frntis to its reverse,title page,a Contents list/table with colour illustration to its reverse too. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 40+ year-old age and nature, i.e. a reference catalogue. It really is an exceptional and exemplary exmple and copy for its cleanliness and brightness. Hendrik Willem Mesdag [b. 23rd February,1831 – d. 10th July, 1915] was a Dutch marine painter. Born in Groningen,son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and his wife Johanna Wilhelmina van Giffen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father,an amateur painter himself,to study art. He married Sina van Houten in 1856,and when they inherited a fortune from her father,Mesdag retired from banking at the age of 35 to pursue a career as a painter. He studied in Brussels with Willem Roelofs and in 1868 moved to The Hague to paint the sea. In 1870 he exhibited at the Paris Salon and won the gold medal for 'The Breakers of the North Sea.' In 1880 he received a commission from a Belgian company to paint a panorama giving a view over the village of Scheveningen on the North Sea coast near The Hague. With the help of Sina and students he completed the enormous painting, Panorama Mesdag - 14m high and 120m around - by 1881. However,the vogue for panoramas was coming to an end,and when the company operating it went bust in 1886,Mesdag purchased the painting at auction and thereafter funding its operating losses from his own pocket. He joined the art society of The Hague (the Pulchri Studio) and in 1889 was elected chairman. In 1903 he gave his house at Laan van Meerdervoort and his collection of paintings to the Netherlands; the house is now The Mesdag Collection. ** Sir Philip Robert Aked Mansfield, KCMG (9th May,1926 – 14th May, 2003) was a British diplomat. From 1979 to 1981,Mansfield was Deputy British Representative to the United Nations in New York. His final posting was as British Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1981 to 1984.Mansfield was appointed CMG in 1973 and KCMG in 1984. ** ** Armande Cohen,a decorated war heroine as a French resistance fighter in WW2,was involved in 2018,in a trial with her GP and account who were accused,but acquitted,of defrauding her of her money and her Knightsbridge flat,after she was diagnosed with dementia.She was awarded the Croix de Guerre, and the Legion d'Honneur by President Sarkozy,and made a CBE by Queen Elizabeth. Ms Cohen served on the Council of Europe and was General Secretary of the European League of Economic Cooperation. ** Ther letter reads thus; Headed address: 19 Rue de la Tremoile, Paris - 8 + 'phone number dated 21st march 1983. ' Dear Philip (handwritten), [Typed - Thank you for your letter of 15th march. I have passed on the information to Miss Sluys who will be contacting the organisations you have suggested. I am most grateful for the trouble you have taken. - ] [Handwritten - Is there any chance I ring you in Paris before I depart and I fly? from Armande - ] [Typed - Armande Cohen ] Left lower corner with Ambassador's typed address'.The letter has been folded horizontally in three. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

Dutch,Qrto HB,minus(?) dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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