Post-Impressionism, with Some Personal Recollections of Vincent Van Gogh & Paul Gauguin
[London]: L. C. C. Central School of Arts & Crafts, 1916. Author's Copy. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 21. Quarter green cloth over paper covered boards, rubbing and soiling to boards, some paper loss and detachment to read board. Frontis. mounted color reproduction of a portrait of Van Gogh by Hartrick, initialed and labeled "proof" by him in pencil. Tipped in to the inner margin of p. 16 is a b&w photographic print of a framed portrait with the inscription "Paul Gauguin at Pouldu [...] a memory by A. S. Hartrick / Paul Gauguin then bathed at this spot - which he used as a background for Calvary” with Hartrick pencil annotation "actual size of original [illegible] Charles Cundall," pasted to the recto of a leaf with the same painting reproduced in halftone, with ink annotations. This work is currently held at the Courtauld Gallery.
Bound in at end is Hartrick's essay on Gauguin, Brittany and Martinique, which appeared in a 1924 Gauguin exhibition catalog 24mo. 28pp. Affixed to rear pastedown is an original Hartrick ink sketch titled in pencil "Some heads in the Atelier Cormon in 1887" including Cormon and Lautrec. Atelier Cormon was a major training ground for late‑19th‑century artists in Paris including Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Heavily annotated, with latest notation on colophon dated 1932. Essentially an updated copy with author's marginalia throughout. A unique copy.
Inscribed by J. H. Mason to A. S. Hartrick "with kindest regards 23 May 1916" on front endpaper.
Inscribed by Hartrick and dated Empire Day, 1916 on title page.
The name Vincent Lines, a fellow artist who studied at Central School of Arts and Crafts under A. S. Hartrick, appears twice, with an address on front endpaper and at foot of title page. Very Good. Item #12264 Mason was a renowned typographer, and educator and a major player in the early 20th-century private press movement, working with the Doves and Cranach Presses. He was head teacher for the LCC Day Technical School of Book Production at the time Hartrick, who also taught at LCC, was at the center of late‑19th‑century avant‑garde circles. He studied in Paris and worked alongside Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Toulouse‑Lautrec.
The London County Council (LCC) was established in 1896, a direct product of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement, and was a premier institution for craft-based art education.
Price: $10,000.00