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Auction #120 begins on 16 Jan 2025

Berman (Esmé) & Nel (Karel)

ALEXIS PRELLER, A VISUAL BIOGRAPHY.

AFRICA, THE SUN AND SHADOWS & COLLECTED IMAGES.

Published: Shelf Publishing, Saxonwold, Johannesburg, 2009

Edition: First edition

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2 volumes: 397 + 283 pages, comprehensively illustrated throughout in colour, pictorial covers (paperbacks), a fine set contained in a laminated slip case. 

1000 copies numbered 1 to 1000.

26 Collectors’ Editions numbered A to Z.

This is number 698

 ‘This book fills a significant vacuum. Alexis Preller, major South African artist, was born in Pretoria in 1911 and died there in 1975. In all that time and ever since, only one small book – published in 1947 – was devoted to his art……In the course of his forty year career, Alexis Preller achieved national recognition and critical acclaim. Loyal admirers flocked every exhibition by the master artist. Yet, there were also those who were disturbed by his frequently cryptic themes and who denounced his flouting of pictorial convention. Preller’s art in indeed unconventional, distinctly independent, often enigmatic, but it is not impenetrable.’ Editor’s note.

  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Overall Condition: Fine
  • Size: Oblong 4to (220 x 240 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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  • Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA


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