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Shapero Rare Books & Shapero Modern are honoured to be participating in the 2023 edition of FRIEZE MASTERS, located in the north-west corner of London's Regents Park.
Visit us at Stand A08 to see Francisco Goya's legendary portfolio of 80 etchings ‘Los Caprichos’, alongside other books including many fine livres d’artistes, as well as a superb selection of prints by 20th-century masters. Amongst these are Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Cy Twombly.
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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The complete set of eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, 1797-1798, on laid paper. A very good set from the first edit...
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Rare suite of etchings, limited to only 150 sets, each plate signed in pencil by Matisse. Number 23 from an edition of 150. The plates depict epis...
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Queen Ntombi Twala is one of four portraits which makeup Warhol's renowned portfolio Reigning Queens, 1985. Each of the four Queens were chosen by...
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One of 100 large paper copies with 2 additional prints. The scarce publication reproducing Goncharova and Larionov's works for the avant-garde stag...
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Swan Engraving Circle I is linked to Stella's wider series called Circuits (1980-84), whereby all the artworks are linked through the theme of fra...
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When Picasso moved to the Côte d'Azur in the 1950s he found it harder to produce etchings and lithographs as both required specialist equipment, h...
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This abstract, three-quarter profile is of Picasso's second wife, Jacqueline Roque. The couple met during the summer of 1952 whilst Roque was work...
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One of 120 copies - signed by Christo. The book Modern Art by Sam Hunter and John Jacobus wrapped in transparent polyethylene with light natural fi...
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From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...
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One of 50 deluxe copies with a signed etching . Picasso's 'supreme theatrical achievement' (John Richardson).Le Tricorne was commissioned by Diaghi...
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Signed by picasso and iliazd. One of 52 copies, Chevaux de minuit is one of Picasso and Iliazd's most successful collaborations. 'Picasso's stylist...
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One of the greatest 18th-century botanical books. One of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical books, with 100 fine hand-coloured plates after ...
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At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century fantastical tales of other worlds and eras began to grip the imaginations of ...
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An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Loren...
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Warhol's Campbell's Soup has become a defining emblem of American consciousness. Created by Warhol in 1962 as a series of 32 paintings of Campbell...
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Cy Twombly rose to fame in 1950s New York, with a new, graffiti-like style influenced by the work of surrounding Abstract Expressionists, Willem d...
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One of 250 copies . Giacometti's testament to art and modern life in his beloved Paris. For the publisher, Tériade, it would be a milestone, the la...
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Join us as we journey through time to discover some of the rarest books in the world. The following texts have shown an extraordinary ability to survive, with some books having survived the ravages of flood and fire, and others counting only a single surviving copy.
The public perception of the East India Company, an organisation which was to become one of Britain's most notorious colonial ventures, was mediated by a collective of artists. Diplomatic wrangling, imperial posturing, trade and warfare became the subjects of a significant artistic movement, aimed at depicting and dissecting the Company’s involvement in the political and social life of the period.
The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor. Join us this Easter as we travel through the imaginary places and winding roads of children’s literature.
Welcome to TEFAF Maastricht: the fair that plays host to some of the most memorable treasures in the art world. With artworks that span over 7000 years, the event has an illustrious history, welcoming collectors and art loves alike for more than three decades.
