French Riviera Villages

THOMPSON, Virginia

Verlag: Mitchell Kennerley, 1938

Beschreibung

THOMPSON, Virginia Mitchell Kennerley 1938 12" x 9 1/4" Aquatints by Augusta Rathbone Pictorial La France Riveria & La Cote D'Azure map endpapers by Pamela Bianco Photographs by Julia Thompson Of this book, 1000 copies have been printed. While in Paris in 1927, Augusta Rathbone was introduced to printmaking and thereafter worked primarily in color aquatint combined with line etching. Rathbone, who had studied briefly with Bonnard, uses a freely drawn black etched line to capture rough shapes which are then filled with color, using aquatint. She worked with Monsieur Porcabeuf, a professional printer in Paris, who would prove her prepared plates. In the 1930s she traveled the French Riviera and her color palette adapted to the colorful villages throughout the region. Rathbone produced twenty color aquatints of the French Riviera and about 1938 she joined forces with Juliet and Virginia Thompson to create the illustrated book French Riviera Villages, which was published that year by Mitchell Kennerly. Twelve of Rathbone's original color aquatints were reproduced mechanically by photography and then hand colored with pochoir. Juliet Thompson photographed the villages and Virginia Thompson wrote a history on each village. Rathbone's aquatints are a modernist homage to these ancient villages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17760

Bibliografische Details

Titel: French Riviera Villages

Verlag: Mitchell Kennerley

Erscheinungsdatum: 1938

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition