New York: Ex Libris, 1984. First edition. Slim quarto. Stapled self wrappers. [16] pp. Illustrated catalog of 75 items for sale. Design and typography by Tamar Cohen. Lightly handled, otherwise a fine copy.
7 x 10 illustrated catalog with 16 pages and 75 items for sale. A very useful reference volume and sought-after artifact from Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen's legendary bookstore Ex-Libris.
Includes items such as Letterhead, Photographs, Postcards, Books Posters, Periodicals and more from Lovis Corinth, E. L. Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde, Otto Muller, Franz Marc, August Macke, Heinrich Campendonk, Kurt Scwitters, Alfred Kubin, Alexei Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Kathe Kollwitz, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Albert Burkart, Karl Hofer, Max Beckmann, Gunther Grassmann, Paul Kleinschmidt, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Christian Rohlfs, George Muche, Johannes Itten, Oskar Schlemmer, El Lissitzky, L. Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Molzahn, Willi Baumeister, Theodor Werner, Fritz Winter, Hans Jaenisch, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Ernst Barlach, Georg Kolbe, Ernesto de Fiori, Renee Sintenis, Gerhard Marcks, Rudolf Belling, Hans Jaenisch, Hans Arp, and others.
EX LIBRIS catalogues have proven themselves to be a consistently invaluable reference for folks interested in 20th-Century Modernism and the related art movements of the Bauhaus, Futurism, Dada & Surrealism, Avant-Garde, Graphic Design, Architecture, Theater, Poster Design, Expressionism, Modern American and European Art Movements, and any other ISM that might tickle your fancy. But if you've read this far, you already knew that, didn't you?
Catalog number six was their piece de resistance - with four hundred and thirty-four fully described and indexed books, periodicals, pamphlets, and posters of the Russian Avant-Garde by the likes of Natan Altman, Yurii Annenkov, David Burliuk, Vladimir Burliuk, Marc Chagall, Vasilii Ermilov, Alexandra Exter, Pavel Filonov, Naum Gabo, Natalia Goncharova, Vasilii Kamensky, Vasilii Kandinsky, Ivan Kliun, Gustav Klucis, Petr Konchalovsky, Mikhail Larionov, V. Lebedev, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Mikail Matiushin, Petr Miturich, Liubov Popova, Ivan Puni, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Georgii Stenberg, Vladimir Stenberg, Vavara Stepanova, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexandr Vesnin, and many, many others. It contains over five hundred additional items related to F.T. Marinetti and Italian Futurism, De Stijl, The Bauhaus and its Legacy, and Eastern European & German books, periodicals, graphics and photographs. And while at the time of its 1977 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, thirty years later they are finally downright bargains.
Ex Libris Rare Books was founded in 1973 by Elaine Lustig-Cohen (1927-2016) and her husband Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986). She was a graphic designer of no small renown, and he was a theologian, novelist, art and literary critic, who wrote extensively on Modern Art. The couple dealt in important and rare printed material and graphic documentation of International 20th-Century art. Much of their early inventory is now in Museums and international private collections. Many items that in these illustrated catalogues are impossible to find today, making these catalogues invaluable to collectors, dealers and scholars alike. They remain exceptional research tools overflowing with important objects and information, include scholarly listings, descriptions, photographs and (1980's) prices of all kinds of early 20th-Century ephemera including posters, letterheads, magazines, reviews, brochures, books, stationery, correspondence, posters, advertisements and much more. You have been warned.
New York: Ex Libris, 1984. First edition. Slim quarto. Stapled self wrappers. [16] pp. Illustrated catalog of 75 items for sale. Design and typography by Tamar Cohen. Lightly handled, otherwise a fine copy.
7 x 10 illustrated catalog with 16 pages and 75 items for sale. A very useful reference volume and sought-after artifact from Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen's legendary bookstore Ex-Libris.
Includes items such as Letterhead, Photographs, Postcards, Books Posters, Periodicals and more from Lovis Corinth, E. L. Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde, Otto Muller, Franz Marc, August Macke, Heinrich Campendonk, Kurt Scwitters, Alfred Kubin, Alexei Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Kathe Kollwitz, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Albert Burkart, Karl Hofer, Max Beckmann, Gunther Grassmann, Paul Kleinschmidt, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Christian Rohlfs, George Muche, Johannes Itten, Oskar Schlemmer, El Lissitzky, L. Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Molzahn, Willi Baumeister, Theodor Werner, Fritz Winter, Hans Jaenisch, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Ernst Barlach, Georg Kolbe, Ernesto de Fiori, Renee Sintenis, Gerhard Marcks, Rudolf Belling, Hans Jaenisch, Hans Arp, and others.
EX LIBRIS catalogues have proven themselves to be a consistently invaluable reference for folks interested in 20th-Century Modernism and the related art movements of the Bauhaus, Futurism, Dada & Surrealism, Avant-Garde, Graphic Design, Architecture, Theater, Poster Design, Expressionism, Modern American and European Art Movements, and any other ISM that might tickle your fancy. But if you've read this far, you already knew that, didn't you?
Catalog number six was their piece de resistance - with four hundred and thirty-four fully described and indexed books, periodicals, pamphlets, and posters of the Russian Avant-Garde by the likes of Natan Altman, Yurii Annenkov, David Burliuk, Vladimir Burliuk, Marc Chagall, Vasilii Ermilov, Alexandra Exter, Pavel Filonov, Naum Gabo, Natalia Goncharova, Vasilii Kamensky, Vasilii Kandinsky, Ivan Kliun, Gustav Klucis, Petr Konchalovsky, Mikhail Larionov, V. Lebedev, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Mikail Matiushin, Petr Miturich, Liubov Popova, Ivan Puni, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Georgii Stenberg, Vladimir Stenberg, Vavara Stepanova, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexandr Vesnin, and many, many others. It contains over five hundred additional items related to F.T. Marinetti and Italian Futurism, De Stijl, The Bauhaus and its Legacy, and Eastern European & German books, periodicals, graphics and photographs. And while at the time of its 1977 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, thirty years later they are finally downright bargains.
Ex Libris Rare Books was founded in 1973 by Elaine Lustig-Cohen (1927-2016) and her husband Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986). She was a graphic designer of no small renown, and he was a theologian, novelist, art and literary critic, who wrote extensively on Modern Art. The couple dealt in important and rare printed material and graphic documentation of International 20th-Century art. Much of their early inventory is now in Museums and international private collections. Many items that in these illustrated catalogues are impossible to find today, making these catalogues invaluable to collectors, dealers and scholars alike. They remain exceptional research tools overflowing with important objects and information, include scholarly listings, descriptions, photographs and (1980's) prices of all kinds of early 20th-Century ephemera including posters, letterheads, magazines, reviews, brochures, books, stationery, correspondence, posters, advertisements and much more. You have been warned.
