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| CATALOGUES Catalogue prices include domestic shipping. California residents add 8.25% sales tax. NEW FRANCISCO ZUNIGA: CATALOGUE RAISONNE - VOLUME III and IV: DRAWINGS & WATERCOLORS 1927-1993 by Ariel Zuniga $200.00 Newly Available: Volume III & IV documents Zuniga's drawings and watercolors and is offered together as a set in a silk lined box. The 2-volume set includes nearly 4,000 illustrations and is offered for $200. Both volumes are hardcover and silk lined with slipcase. Each volume includes an addendum with additions and corrections to the previous books. All text is in Spanish and English. ARSHILE GORKY - THE EARLY YEARS by Melvin P. Lader Softbound $30 Harbound $50 This important text with 96 pages and 103 color illustrations, is devoted to an important formative phase of Arshile Gorky‚s career. Melvin P. Lader, leading scholar on the artist's work, establishes new critical ground expanding upon his extensive research and previous writings on the life and work of Arshile Gorky. With significant new insights and revelations into his early years, Mel Lader's essay and Jack Rutberg's preface bring to greater light a profound artistic relationship between Gorky and artist Hans Burkhardt, which would have an enduring impact. All of the works in this book were from Burkhardt‚s collection, with the majority of these - more than 100 works - having never before been exhibited or reproduced. Text by Melvin P. Lader Preface by Jack Rutberg 96 pages and 103 color illustrations Published by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, 2004 ISBN 1-880566-14-1 softbound ISBN 1-880566-15-X hardbound FRANCISCO ZUNIGA: CATALOGUE RAISONNE - VOLUME II: OIL PAINTINGS, ORIGINAL PRINTS & REPRODUCTIONS 1927-1986 by Ariel Zuniga $95.00 This beautifully printed and definitive reference work in hardcover, with silk-lined slipcase, contains 375 illustrations. Essays by Ariel Zuniga and by Andrew Vlady (master lithographer who often collaborated with Zuniga). The book includes an appendix of additions and corrections to Catalogue Raisonné: Sculpture, Volume I. Also included is a section devoted to reproductions which are frequently mistaken for original prints and drawings. All text is in Spanish and English. Together with Volume I, this comprehensive volume represents an indispensable reference on the work of Francisco Zuniga. FRANCISCO ZUNIGA: CATALOGUE RAISONNE / VOLUME I: SCULPTURE 1923-1993 by Ariel Zuniga $115.00 640-pages with more than 1,100 illustrations documenting the complete body of sculpture by Francisco Zuniga. Hard-bound with silk covering, contained in silk-lined slipcase. This is an indispensable reference work on this major 20th Century master's work. Written and organized by Ariel Zuniga, the artist's son and biographer. The book includes a comprehensive chronology and essays by Ariel Zuniga as well as by the artist, Francisco Zuniga. All text is in Spanish and English. Published by Albedrio in association with Fundacion Zuniga Laborde, A.C., Mexico HANS BURKHARDT: THE WAR PAINTINGS A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ $45.00 A complete reference documenting Burkhardt's paintings on the subject of war. This aspect of Burkhardt's work is regarded by many art historians as an unprecedented artistic response to the subject both in scale and artistic expression. Works spanning 1938 to 1984 relate to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Lebanese crisis. To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com HANS BURKHARDT: BASEL Paintings and works on paper from Burkhardt's "Graffiti Series" inspired by the social upheaval of Basel's youth in 1981, during one of Burkhardt's annual visits. Aurelio de la Vega, composer and professor of music at CSUN, places Burkhardt in historical perspective in his informed and poetic essay. To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com HANS BURKHARDT: PASTELS, 50 YEARS OF FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONISM To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com HANS BURKHARDT: 1950-1960 Bright and richly painted oils from this important period in the development of Abstract Expressionism. Major works primarily from Burkhardt's "Mexican Period", including several exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Sao Paulo Biennial, etc. The catalogue essay broadly charts Burkhardt's history and artistic development, particularly after arriving in Los Angeles in 1937 from New York. To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com HANS BURKHARDT: PAINTINGS & PASTELS 1988-1989 Burkhardt's powerful "Northridge" series relates the symbolic struggle of artistic survival. Richly painted canvases often employing assemblage, and black pastels remarkable for their tonal range, achieved by Burkhardt's new inventive use of the medium. To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com CATASTROPHE ACCORDING TO HANS BURKHARDT Renowned art historian Donald Kuspit deals substantively with Burkhardt's work in a provocative text referring to Burkhardt's paintings as "masterful...an innovator in the Abstract Expressionist mold...filling the hole in the story" of American painting. Catalogue for the retrospective exhibition presented by Muhlenberg College and then as the featured exhibition at the GalwayInternational Arts Festival, Ireland. Paintings span 1928 through 1990. To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com HANS BURKHARDT: DESERT STORMS A 90 page book with text by renowned art historian Peter Selz documenting Burkhardt's most recent paintings, inspired by the Iraq/Kuwait conflict. Selz, in his incisive essay, refers to these paintings as an "astonishing series...and major works of art." Selz addresses Burkhardt's unique role art historically as an independent force in 20th century art. This book illustrates in color the entire series of 36 paintings, begun by Burkhardt the very day following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Selz's essay is illustrated with 14 additional works dating from 1934 to 1968. To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com HANS BURKHARDT: BLACK RAIN Renowned art historian Donald Kuspit reflects upon Burkhardt's powerful final works. In his richly insightful essay, Kuspit refers to the 1993 series as "remarkable new mixed media works." Kuspit addresses their rich symbolism and poignancy, regarding them as "...striking..superb examples of..social idea and private vision, external symbol and introspective revelation, traditional icon and modern primitivist form." Illustrated in full page color images. To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com HANS BURKHARDT: PASTELLE, EINE RETROSPEKTIVE VON 1938-1983 A richly illustrated catalogue published for the 1993 Retrospective Exhibition of Hans Burkhardt pastels in Berlin, Germany. Charting Burkhardt's career- long interest in this medium, eminent art historian Peter Selz reflects upon "...the richness of expression and symbolism.." in Burkhardt's pastels of the human figure. Selz observes how Burkhardt's pastels of the late 1930's with their "...powerful expressionist gestures predict the ferocity of De Kooning's figurative work of the early 1950's...they recall the expressionism of the Brucke artists, but also share a great deal of the aesthetic of George Baselitz, Rainer Fetting, and Helmut Middendorf." An excellent representative overview of Burkhardt's remarkable range in his depiction of the figure "...celebrating it as monumental form with an amazing range of expression for human experience..." To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com HANS BURKHARDT: DRAWINGS 1932-1989 A 90 page, fully illustrated catalogue of the major touring exhibition curated by Townsend Wolfe for the Arkansas Arts Center. The text includes a preface by Townsend Wolfe and an essay by noted art historian and critic Peter Frank, in which Frank traces the development of Burkhardt's works on paper. Burkhardt's mastery of various drawing mediums including ink, charcoal, graphite, watercolor and pastel is evidenced in 55 full page color illustrations. Recognized for his unique brand of Abstract Expressionist painting, the catalogue traces the development of Burkhardt's style and career long commitment to drawing, which represented an equally important aspect of the artist's body of work. To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com PATRICK GRAHAM: THE LARK IN THE MORNING To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com PATRICK GRAHAM: To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com PATRICK GRAHAM To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com PATRICK GRAHAM To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com EDWARD GLAUDER: SCULPTURE 1980-88 To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com CLAIRE FALKENSTEIN: CHANCE AND CHOICE To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com THE PRINTS OF KÄTHE KOLLWITZ To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com HANNELORE BARON To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com RUTH WEISBERG: SURVEY EXHIBITION 1971-1979 To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com RUTH WEISBERG: A CIRCLE OF LIFE RUTH WEISBERG: PAINTINGS DRAWINGS PRINTS 1968-1988 Foreword by Marjorie Levy Dean To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com Video prices include domestic shipping. California residents add 8.25% sales tax. The Films of Oskar Fischinger, Vol. I To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com Hans Burkhardt: The Artist's World VHS video 35 minutes An intimate portrait of Hans Burkhardt, this documentary features interviews with the artist in his studio and home as he reflects upon his life and work. Burkhardt reminisces about his early years in his native Switzerland and his arrival in New York, where he shared Arshile Gorky's studio. Along with commentary from distinguished art historians, dealers and artists, Burkhardt traces the development of his art and life in Los Angeles, and his sojourns to Mexico, where created provocative works which proved prescient to his contemporaries' in New York and Europe. Burkhardt is shown engaging many of his favorite works which today are increasingly regarded as being among the major paintings of Contemporary Art. To order: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com |
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