Dancers: A BOOK OF BALLET PAINTINGS.**

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour artwork by Donald Hamilton Fraser,illustrated dw/dj with blue+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound, pristine and virtually as new - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,publisher's original,plain pale green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped dark blue ink letters to spine/backstrip,a blue+white striped headband and immaculate plain dark blue eps.Bottom 2 corners minimally bumped,other corners and both head+foot of spine/ backstrip unaffected and fine.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7- 80pp [paginated] includes introduction by Nicholas Usherwood, text of 'Dancers: Extracts from a Ballet Notebook',b/w+colour plates (63 illus in total - 40 in colour) interspersed throughout the the text and the book,a further information section and an index.Plus [unpaginated] b/w drawing vignetted half-title page, recto of which has a colour artwork frntis,b/w drawing vignetted title-page recto of same,with a dedication and acknowledgements,and a b/w drawing vignetted contents list/table.
Donald Hamilton Fraser's ballet drawings already have many admirers.
This delightful book is set to increase this number.These insightful and lovingly executed drawings demonstrate Hailton Fraser's natural skill as a draughtsman.For the artist,they are 'little maps of experience',each one expressing and capturing a moment in a dancer's life, whether it be in class,in performance, or simply in repose.
Hamilton Fraser,whose work is represented in major public collections throughout the world,admits to a devotion to ballet that borders on the obsessional.He says: 'the language of ballet confers sheer physical beauty on a person'.
Lavishly illustrated with colour and b/w drawings,'Dancers' presents a unique insight into this world.As an evocation of the grace of ballet,this book is unsurpassed.
Donald Hamilton Fraser b.1929.Studied at St. Martin's School of Art,London,1949-50. Studied and worked in Paris.French Government Scholarship 1953-54.Taught at Royal College of Art !957-83.Fellow of Royal College of Art 1970.Hon.Fellow 1984. Royal Academician 1985.Member of the Royal Fine Art Commission since 1986.Lives and works in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (then 1989).
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