Limited edition, with 13 prints of paintings by LeRoy Neiman and a preface by Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Signed by both.
Publisher and Year: Mount Vernon, NY: The Artist's Limited Edition, 1975.
Edition: Limited Edition of 1,500 copies, this being number 211. First and only printing of this edition. Signed by American artist LeRoy Neiman under the serigraph frontispiece. Also signed by the French naval officer, oceanographer, and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau after the preface he contributed. Housed in its original linen-covered slipcase.
Condition and Description: Folio (14 1/4" x 11 1/2"), full pebble-grained brown leather stamped in gilt, plain edges, brown endpapers. Frontispiece serigraph and 12 other prints of paintings by Neiman. Preface by Cousteau. 272 pages in double-column type. Trace rubbing to the leather. Light offsetting of the serigraph onto the title page, as usual. Clean pages. No writing, underlining, or prior owner's markings. A little soiling to the slipcase. The original subscriber letter and envelope, as well as the plastic covering used by the publisher to ship the book, are still present. An uncommonly well-preserved example of an edition that commands presence on the shelf.
“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”
Many artists have illustrated Moby Dick. Rockwell Kent was the first to thoroughly capture the public's imagination with his monochrome woodcuts, published in 1930. Kent’s images are austere and symbolic. Heavy blacks, stark whites, and simplified forms imbue the voyage with a mythic quality. LeRoy Neiman takes a sharply contrasting approach. His paintings, firmly in the expressionist tradition, are saturated with swirling colors, use loose brush strokes, and explode with energy.
Inventory ID: 544 - 598 - 318
Limited edition, with 13 prints of paintings by LeRoy Neiman and a preface by Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Signed by both.
Publisher and Year: Mount Vernon, NY: The Artist's Limited Edition, 1975.
Edition: Limited Edition of 1,500 copies, this being number 211. First and only printing of this edition. Signed by American artist LeRoy Neiman under the serigraph frontispiece. Also signed by the French naval officer, oceanographer, and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau after the preface he contributed. Housed in its original linen-covered slipcase.
Condition and Description: Folio (14 1/4" x 11 1/2"), full pebble-grained brown leather stamped in gilt, plain edges, brown endpapers. Frontispiece serigraph and 12 other prints of paintings by Neiman. Preface by Cousteau. 272 pages in double-column type. Trace rubbing to the leather. Light offsetting of the serigraph onto the title page, as usual. Clean pages. No writing, underlining, or prior owner's markings. A little soiling to the slipcase. The original subscriber letter and envelope, as well as the plastic covering used by the publisher to ship the book, are still present. An uncommonly well-preserved example of an edition that commands presence on the shelf.
“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”
Many artists have illustrated Moby Dick. Rockwell Kent was the first to thoroughly capture the public's imagination with his monochrome woodcuts, published in 1930. Kent’s images are austere and symbolic. Heavy blacks, stark whites, and simplified forms imbue the voyage with a mythic quality. LeRoy Neiman takes a sharply contrasting approach. His paintings, firmly in the expressionist tradition, are saturated with swirling colors, use loose brush strokes, and explode with energy.
Inventory ID: 544 - 598 - 318
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