Andre Bieler: An artist's life and times de Frances K Smith - 1980

Merritt Publishing Company, 1980. A fine oversized hardcover in good to very gooddust jacket. Oversized Hardcover. Fine/Good to Very Good.

Toronto: Merritt, 1980. 176 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w reproductions, b&w photographs. "This study of the life and work of Andre Bieler, one of Canada's most important living artists, spans eighty-three years of his life and art in Europe, the United States and Canada. It studies him against the flowering of twentieth-century Canadian art, a fascinating history in itself. (S)tarts with (his) birth in Switzerland in 1896, tracing his European family roots, his World War I experiences and his traditional artist's apprenticeship in Europe, his arrival in Canada as a young artist and subsequent exploration of the rural 'habitant' way of life in Quebec's L'ile d'Orleans and on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. Most important, the author shows us the extraordinary creative energy of Andre Bieler, his exuberance and intense love of people and life that, even in his eighties, keep him experimenting in art,… Leer más

Merritt Publ., 1980. 176 pp., illustrated. Hard cover, dust jacket. Very good condition. 092088606X

Merritt Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 092088606X . Stiff crisp book in bright black cloth; about new but for thin rectangle excised from front endpaper; in crisp dust jacket with tiny perforation along front spine. ; 9.75 x 11.75"; 176 pages .

Black & white and colour illustrations cat 60

Toronto / Vancouver: Merritt Publishing Company Limited, 1980. First Canadian Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 176pp w notes, bibliography and indices. Illust w bw and color reproductions of Bieler art. Grey endpapers. Dark grey cloth w gilt lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without edgewear, showing tiny scuff to bottom corners. Quarto: 300 x 245mm.

Toronto / Vancouver: Merritt Publishing Company, 1980. (CAD) Presued 1st edition. SIGNED BY ARTIST " Andre Bieler, 1981", no other markings, hint of spine slant, otherwise Very Good in Very Good (-) dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to head of spine of Dj and 1/2" closed tear and small crease to bottom edge of front panel; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Cloth hardcover, 176pp, index, colour frontis and 9 colour plates; lots of B&W photos and illus. Bieler, who died in 1989, was a Swiss-born Canadian painter and teacher. He is known for his genre pictures of life in rural Quebec. He was the first president of the Federation of Canadian Artists (1942–1944), and was instrumental in the foundation of the Canada Council and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario. (3.1 JM HOJ 300/3. Signed by Artist. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good (-). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Merritt Publishing. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 092088606X . HC/DJ - fine/very good. Hardcover is clean, tight and unmarked. B/w & colour illustrations. Jacket has a few small edge tears, scuffing/light scratches, a little edge wrinkling and age tanning to inside edges, not clipped. " In this richly illustrated book, Frances K. Smith traces the roots of the Biéler family and covers the development of the artist, from his apprenticeship to his exploration of rural habitant life along the shores and islands of Quebec....; 4to 11" - 13" tall; André Biéler would emerge as an artist of extraordinary creative energy, working in printmaking as well as oils...." (*Due to weight, there will be addt'l shipping charges to most locations) [1,180] .

Black & white and colour illustrations cat 60

TORONTO, CANADA: MERRITT PUB.. CLEAN COPY. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1980.