Volume one: Africa, the sun and shadows
Volume 2: Collected images
2 volumes: 397 + 283 pages, profusely illustrated with colour and black and white illustrations, pictorial card wrappers (paperbacks) a fine set housed in a laminated slip case which has a small indentation on the back of it.
On the inside of the back flaps: No 464 of 100 copies
Editor's note: 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 is indeed unconventional, distinctly independent, often enigmatic, but it is not impenetrable.'
- Overall Condition: A Fine Set
- Size: 4to (220 x 250 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
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- Telephone: 021 794 0600
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