XXth Century Drawings and Watercolours

New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1966. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 13" by 10". Various. A very smart copy of this collection of artwork from the twentieth century, translated from the original French. Dated from the University of Oxford Libraries. Illustrated throughout with one hundred and fourteen plates in colour and eighty-four drawings in two-tones. Collated complete. A vibrant history of art with specific focus on drawing and watercolour. Becoming a commentary on these art-forms, the influence of free techniques from the end of the nineteenth century, Expressionism and the new schools of Cubism and Futurism as well as poetry and intelligence. Includes references to special trends of women, fashion, interior design, advertising, and sculptors' drawings. Written by Raymond Cogniat, a French art critic, historian of art, journalist, and theatre design expert. Translated from the French by Anne Ross, a British translator. In the original beige cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear. Sympathetic repairs and reinforcement to the internal side of the wrap with paper tape. Sunning to the spine and the edges of the boards. Light chipping resulting in minor loss to the head and tail of the spine as well as the bottom corner of the front board. The odd small closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark to the endpapers. Near Fine