Eduardo Malta: Mestre do Retrato

[MALTA, Eduardo] Fernando de Pamplona

Verlag: Bertrand Irmaos, [No place given], 1943

Beschreibung

Folio, 12 color plates, plus 1 black-and-white plate, and 4 leaves of text (email us for a more detailed description. A fair to good smoker's copy, with much of the spine missing, and the leaves rather loosely holding together. Still clean and bright internally, with just one flattened crease to one of the tipped-in illustrations. This is copy number 85 of an unstated limitation. A presentation copy, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the artist on a blank leaf: "A Sua Excelencia o Senhor Embaixador dos Estados Unidos em Lisboa, Henry Norweb, com a profunda simpatia e muita admiracao de Eduardo Malta. Novembro [?] 1944, Lisboa." Norweb was a notable figure in American history, having secured through negotiations with Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar the right to build an American Air Force base in the Azores in the very same month (November 1944) that this book was inscribed. Malta, the artist, would eventually become the director of the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea in the years before his death, and was well-known as an opponent of "modern art." He also painted some rather important figures in far-right politics, including Spanish falangist Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera. A scarce book, with fewer than half a dozen copies in worldwide library holdings, and even scarcer signed (we know of no other exmples). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3300

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Eduardo Malta: Mestre do Retrato

Verlag: Bertrand Irmaos, [No place given]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1943

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Fair to Good

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: Limited Edition.