Gauguin And The Origins Of Symbolism. Solana, Guillermo.

FIRST EDITION. Square quarto, pp. 328. Colour illustrations throughout. Publisher's red cloth with titles in blind to upper board and spine, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket; russet endpapers. Overall a very clean, neat copy with no annotations or inscriptions; jacket slightly creased at head of spine. A Fine book in Near Fine jacket. Beginning in the mid 1880s, Gauguin began to move away from impressionism and towards symbolism. This volume follows this journey and change in art styles including interactions between Gauguin and his students, masters and peers. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.