L'Harmonie des Couleurs
GUICHARD, Edouard and Georg KREBS. L'Harmonie des Couleurs. [12] pp. of text, illustrated with 165 colour plates, 8 of which are double-page. Folio, 352 x 262 mm, contemporary half morocco. Paris: Ad. Goubaud et fils 1880.
A spectacular book, profusely illustrated with exquisite designs in stunning colours which were used in the decorative arts such as wallpaper, panels, doors, shelves, molding, curtains, and textiles and costumes. There is a total of 1,300 combinations on 165 (8 double-page) descriptive plates of which 135 (71 mounted) are in pochoir, including screen-printed text posters, as well as 29 multicoloured lithographs.
A fine copy of this extremely rare work, heavily influenced by the 1839 work De la loi du contraste simulanté des Couleurs by M.E. Chevreul, with OCLC listing copies at RIT, Getty, Yale, LC, U. of Illinois, Harvard Cincinnati Art Museum and U. of Texas.
Interior hinge professionally reinforced. A handful of plates have minor foxing or discoloration, but overall a fine copy.
The Book of Colour Concepts 342.
Item nr. 172665
Price:
$9,750.00