PUBLISHED TO ACCOMPANY THE MAJOR EXHIBITION OF FLEMISH AND BELGIAN ART AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY IN 1927, WITH ESSAYS BY LAMBOTTE, FRIEDLÄNDER, AND THOMSON
LAMBOTTE, Paul et al. Flemish & Belgian Art, 1300-1900. Thirty-Four Reproductions in Colour and Sixty in Photogravure from the Exhibition Organized by the Anglo-Belgian Union at Burlington House, London, 1927. With Introductory Essays by Paul Lambotte […], Dr. Max J. Friedländer & W.G. Thomson, and an Annotated List of the Principal Pictures. London: Geo. Pulman & Sons Ltd. for The Apollo Press, Ltd., 1927.
Folio (373 x 274mm), pp. [2 (limitation statement, verso blank)], 192. Title and text printed in red and black. Mounted colour-printed frontispiece, 33 colour-printed plated mounted on 31 ll., and 30 photogravure plates with illustrations recto-and-verso. (Some light marking, marginal tear on frontispiece mount, some tipped-in illustrations partially detached.) Original brown buckram, upper board and spine lettered in gilt. (A few light marks, slightly rubbed, extremities lightly bumped, some splitting on upper hinge and bookblock.) Provenance: Nottingham High School, Nottingham (early armorial inkstamps on upper pastedown and p. 192, early ‘Reference’ inkstamps on upper pastedown, title, and p. [4], ink stamp with manuscript accession number and class mark on p. [4], paper labels on front free endpapers; sold on their behalf).
First edition, no. 1 of 1,000 copies. The Anglo-Belgian Union was responsible for organising the ‘Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian Art 1300-1900’, held at the Royal Academy in London in 1927 under the joint patronage of King George V and Queen Mary of Great Britain, and King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. Not only were works loaned from the national and royal collections of both Britain and Belgium, but also by the French, Hungarian, Danish, and Austrian governments (the latter lending tapestries from the imperial collections at Schönbrunn, which had never previously been exhibited abroad), and European and American private collectors.
This handsomely produced volume illustrates nearly one hundred of the works exhibited, and it includes an introductory essay by the distinguished Belgian art historian and civil servant Sir Paul Lambotte KBE (1862-1939), who led the Belgian committee responsible for the exhibition. Lombotte’s essay is followed by one by the noted German-Dutch historian of Netherlandish art Max J. Friedländer (1867-1958) on ‘The Snow Scene by Pieter Breughel’ and a second on ‘Tapestry at the Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian Art’ by the artist and pioneering tapestry historian W.G. Thomson (1865-1942). The volume concludes with an ‘Annotated List of the Principal Paintings and Owners’, which is arranged alphabetically by the names of the artists or schools, and subdivided into historic and modern works.
£39.50
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