Egon Schiele: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings

London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1973. Hardcover. VG/Good (light scuffs, scratches to boards. divet to lower & side of front board. textblock edges have light marks/stain; scattered, speckled foxing to all edges. dustjacket toned; scuffs, scratches & speckled stains; creasing to front flap edges; blotched foxing; spine has dark, speckled foxing; upper edges have areas of dense, dark speckled foxing; foxing to interior; not presentation quality). Black cloth w/ stylized red pritning & decoration on spine & front cover, tan & illus. dust jacket. 688 pp., 612 BW illus., 84 color plates, 144 BW plates; includes two additional plates on a folded & laid-in. Light foxing remnants to page edges, otherwise, a bright copy. Additional plates laid-in to back board are densely foxed at edges. Approximately 11lbs for shipping. Considers well the life and work of Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918). "The first major book to deal with Schiele's work as a whole. The illustrations have been selected with great care, intended to show the artist's most important works as well as to trace his artistic development. In addition to detailed analyses of his paintings, watercolours, and drawings, the book includes an illustrated catalogue raisonne of Schiele's paintings, a selection of his letters and other hitherto unpublished documentary material, and such special features as a guide to the subjects he depicted.