Description
Fonds Mercator/Menil Foundation/Flammarion/Electa/Philip Wilson, 1992/1994
Blue cloth with gilded titles and pictorial dust jacket, 32 x 26 x 18 cm (as a set), 387 + 478 + 353 + 500 pages, illustrated throughout in black and white, text in English.
The definitive catalogue raisonné on Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, published in 1992. Published as a five volume set available at the publisher for 24.500 FB , the first volume published 25 years after the passing of Magritte. This set the first the first four volumes, thus lacking the fifth volume Supplement, Bibliography, Indices, Special Collection. A sixth volume with newly discovered works was published in 2012 and is as of now still available at the publisher.
Different publishers on the spine, but the same content.
Vol.1 : Oil Paintings 1916-1930
Some shelfwear to the dust jacket, else good.
Vol.2 : Oil Paintings and Objects 1931-1948
Some shelfwear to the dust jacket, else good.
Vol.3 : Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967
Still sealed, very good.
Vol.4 : Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers collés 1918-1967
Dust jacket with a tiny mark to the upper of the spine, else good.