MAYWALD, Wilhelm. Portrait and Atelier, Zürich, Switzerland: Green/Die Arche, 1958. Hardcover (gold-stamped black cloth), 9 5/8 x 8 ¾ inches, screen-gravure illustrations, dustjacket.
This is an often-overlooked, handsome book that focuses on a dozen major European artists, among them Arp, Braque, Chagall, Le Corbusier, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Rouault, and Utrillo. Maywald provides photographs of them in their studios, à la Arnold Newman, richly rendered in gravure. The artists supplied an example of their work, usually as a line drawing, and a pithy quotation, often reproduced as a facsimile of their own handwriting. The minimal text is printed in French, German, and English. German-born Wilhelm Maywald (1907-1985) was a portrait photographer in Switzerland and Paris. Very good condition

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