 | Henri Matisse: A Retrospective by John Elderfield
Buy used from: $24.84 I have several Matisse books, but pull this MOMA retrospective book out to use more than most.
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 | The Art of Richard Diebenkorn (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book) by Jane Livingston
Buy new: $54.00 / Used from: $31.44 Excellent quality and size of color plates; very good critique/essays; a fine book on a 'painter's painter.'
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 | Hans Hofmann (Art & Design) by Cynthia Goodman
Buy used from: $31.46 Out-of-print, find used; from a Whitney retrospective; high-quality, large color plates, essays by Greenberg, Sandler of this major painter /teacher. Or try Goodman's Modern Master's Hoffman book.
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 | Paul Klee by Jean-Louis Ferrier
Buy used from: $8.28 Newer book, accessible and original look at Klee by Ferrier; 140 works in large, excellent color (can see texture in many plates).
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 | Masters of Art: Klee by Will Grohmann
Buy used from: $5.00 Abrams Master of Art Series; great text by Grohmann; affordable survey; plates large, color ranges from good to ok; has one of my favorite Klees: "Ancient Sound, Abstract on Black"
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 | Janet Fish by Janet Fish
Buy used from: $29.99 Books on Fish hard to find. This is a favorite, but out-of-print, from 1987; separate illustrations glued onto heavy--but not acid-free!--stock. Major colorist/realist--I love this book.
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 | Howard Hodgkin by Andrew Graham-Dixon
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $24.38 Lush! Superb quality color plates. A superior critical text makes this book a pleasure to pull off the shelf. Hodgkin's work, while small scale, is big art. And the color!
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 | Lucian Freud: Paintings by Robert Hughes
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $18.00 If you want to know what it means, in all respects, to paint modern flesh, this is your book. Not to mention the essay by Robert Hughes, a master of art criticism. Must-have for figurative artists
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 | Cezanne: Visions of a Great Painter (The Impressionists) by Henri Lallemand
Buy used from: $3.57 I want to look closely at paintings. For a modest price, I can do that with this oversize book;. Good color and great closeups of brushwork and detail. A good add to your set of Cezanne books.
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 | Wolf Kahn by Justin Spring
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $21.99 Kahn's color does hard work in his paintings. He collects specific colors like wine vintages. Plates are stunning, and up to Abrams quality. A recent addition, I haven't read the full text yet.
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| Bonnard by Nicholas Watkins
Buy used from: $27.22 Alas, another out-of-print one. Lesson learned: buy them while I can. Color is central for me, so Bonnard, like Matisse, is one of my must-haves. This one is good.
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 | Richard Diebenkorn: Revised and Expanded by Gerald Nordland
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $74.74 Another good one if you appreciate Diebenkorn. Fewer works like the Berkley paintings (Livingston's book above has more), but many of the Ocean Park series, and plate quality is very good.
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| Vermeer by Pascal Bonafoux
Buy used from: $0.30 A very nice, reasonably-priced book on Vermeer. Plates big, detail excellent. Critical text by a Prix de Rome winner. Going (or gone) O.O.P., so grab it if you find it.
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 | Helen Frankenthaler Prints by Ruth E. Fine
Buy used from: $25.00 This was an impulse purchase I've never regretted. Her prints are done justice here, in a qood-quality book. Look for her folding screens, pictures of. Great color.
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