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From books on Andy Warhol to Picasso, Assouline Art Books cover all aspects and styles from the best the art world has to offer – all our books are vividly illustrated and are of the highest luxury.

Renowned for their or original graphic concept, Assouline books are works of art that capture culture and bring it to life.



The Impossible Collection
By Philippe Segalot & Franck Giraud
Cloth over board in linen presentation box.
128 Pages, 100 Images / 14 x 17"

Limited, hand-bound edition with hand tipped images. Own the 20th century's greatest works of art! In The Impossible Collection Segalot and Giraud curate the ideal contemporary collection - in which money is no object and anything is possible.
$500.00
9782759403004
Magritte
By Pierre Sterckx
Hardcover, Encased in printed slipcase
220 Pages / 9.5 x 14.25"

This magnificent volume, with a luxurious slipcase which has a reproduction of a Magritte painting, is a limited edition. Presenting all the major works of this painter, this book is sure to endure as one of the most beautiful ever published on Magritte
$300.00
9782843235092
Lost Africa
By Cyril Christo & Marie Wilkinson

Portfolio format with ribbons and loose poster-like photo prints in a beautiful slipcase.
122 Pages / 13 x 16.67"

Limited number available. With penetrating black & white images and a lyrically evocative essay, Lost Africa is a tribute to the beauty of this huge continent and a song for a timeless Africa.
$300.00
9782843236075
Insects
By Thierry W Despont
Hardcover, Jacket / 120 Pages, 100 Images
13 x 16.5"

This book explores the unique worlds Thierry Despont assembles from found objects and exhibited at the Marlborough gallery in New York. Despont is a leading architect, designer, and artist whose work includes the Statue of Liberty and the Jean Paul Getty Museum
$350.00
9782759403011
Planets, Special Edition
By Thierry W. Despont
Limited edition. Printed on art quality cotton
Hardcover / 120 Pages, 100 Images
13 x 16.5"

Combining geometrical purity and gestural grandeur, Thierry W. Despont combines his architectural skills and painter's virtuosity in this spectacular collection of majestic and daunting orbs, turning his struggle with the corrosive materials into a spiritual achievement.
$350.00
9782759403837
Studio
By Thierry W. Despont
Printed on art quality cotton.
Hardcover, Jacket / 120 Pages, 100 Images
13 x 16.5 in

Thierry W. Despont is an architect, designer, and artist. Following his exhibition at the Marlborough gallery in Chelsea, New York, this book explores the unique worlds he assembles from found objects...
$350.00
9782759403028
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1000 Degrees: Deyrolle
Photography by Laurent Bochet
Text by Louis Albert de Broglie
Bound with dusk jacket and boxed.
192 Pages, 100 Images / 10.4 x 13.1"

Since 1831, the mythical Parisian store Deyrolle has offered nature enthusiasts an extensive collection of insects and shells and a wide range of taxidermy animals, natural curiosities, and educational materials...
$165.00
9782759405589
The Sculptures of Picasso
Texts by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Photography by Brassai
Portfolio format with loose photo prints.
120 Pages, 70 Images / 13 x 16.66"

This luxurious volume presents the sculptures of Picasso photographed by Brassai, one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. A rare study of lesser-known works
$120.00
9782843237881
Portraits of the Renaissance
By Nathalie Mandel
Hardcover, Jacket / 128 Pages, 70 Images
13 x 16.66"

Van Eyck, Raphael, Holbein, Titian, Leonardo - these are the greatest names of the Renaissance, the ultimate in artistic achievement. Featuring spectacularly reproduced images, this large format volume is the first of its kind to shed light on these gems.
$70.00
9782843238901
The Impossible Collection
By Philippe Segalot & Franck Giraud
Hardcover / 132 Pages, 100 Images
8 x 10"

Own the 20th century's greatest works of art! In The Impossible CollectionSegalot and Giraud curate the ideal contemporary collection - in which money is no object and anything is possible. A compact version of our lavish Ultimate Collection edition
$50.00
9782759403943
Lost Fish
Introduction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Hardcover, Jacket / 230 Pages, 200 Images
9.25 x 11.75"

A collection of more than 200 richly colored, painstakingly detailed antique illustrations culled from rare 19th century scientific volumes. Lost Fish offers a chance to meditate on the dazzling beauty of marine life before it is too late.
$50.00
Lost Fish 9782759403929
Botanicals
By E. A. Seguy
Hardcover, Jacket / 300 Pages, 250 Images
9.25 x 11.75"

Culled from three centuries of drawings from the rare books library of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, each page in Botanicals explodes with rich colors and lifelike details. Exquisite flowers, delicate fruits, and exuberant butterflies are among...
$50.00
9782759402694
Vatican
By Dominique Chivot
Hardcover, Jacket / 224 Pages, 200 Images
9 x 11.75"

Vatican expert Dominique Chivot follows the journeys of countless pilgrims and cardinals to unlock the secrets of Vatican City. Chivot illuminates masterpieces of architecture, painting, and sculpture by Bernini, Michelangelo and others
$65.00
9782759403936
British Artists at Work
By Gemma De Cruz & Hertlestein-Saatchi
Hardcover, Plastic binding
240 Pages, 200 Images / 8.25 x 11.75"

Limited number available. Offering unique insight into the world of contemporary art, British Artists at Work looks at four generations of artists, from the established to the newly emerging. An exciting and revealing behing-the-scenes look.
$200.00
9782843235054
Picasso: The Last Years
By Mariano Miguel Montanes
Hardcover, Jacket / 128 Pages, 20 Images
6.5 x 8.25"

Mariano Miguel Montanes was the assistant and confident of the great painter during his time in the French Riviera. Thanks to Montanes' journal we are able to enter the day-to-day life of the most important artist of the 20th century.
$24.95
9782843236136
Red
By Stephanie Busuttil
Cloth cover / 288 Pages
6 x 8.5"

Violent, mystical, powerful, sensual and sophisticated, red is the color and this book celebrates it in its various incarnations in religion, fashion, design, medicine, architecture and contemporary art. See the red Fellini and Kurosawa, Picasso, Buddhists, and more
$39.95
9782843232220
Rooster
By Philippe Schlienger
Hardcover / 80 Pages, 50 Images
10.5 x 14.5"

Philippe Schlienger's roosters stare at us with aggressiveness and an anxiety common to all birds. But what a shock to be faced with these roosters dressed for parade! Blazing, dazzling, glittering, they are fantastic. Schlienger's new icons are fun, posh, posing, and swanky.
$55.00
9782843237416
The Worth of Art (2)
By Judith Benhamou-Huet
Paperback / 128 Pages / 6 x 9.25"

$136 million for a Klimt, $71.7 million for an Andy Warhol...It's not that art is expensive, but rather that money has become cheap for certain collectors - Russian oligarchs, Chinese, and American hedge fund managers. This is an inside and outside view on an art world nourished by excess.
$24.95
9782759401475
Balthus: In His Own Words
By Cristina Carrillo De Albornoz

An insightful and candid portrait of the artist Balthus. Presented in the form of ABC questions, Balthus: In His Own Words reveals his personal universe. "B" for beauty, "H" for Homer, "M" for Mozart, "S" for SOS, Balthus...
$18.95
9782843233012
Cezanne in Provence
By Denis Coutagne

The great Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne spent most of his life working in the the beautiful surroundings of Aix-en-Provence, where he was born in 1839. Today, the Jas de Bouffan, the Bibémus quarry, the Chateau-Noir...
$18.95
9782843236518
Fashion & Surrealism
By Francois Baudot

Surrealism remains a great inspiration for the fashion world. Designers embraced the ideals and aesthetics of such creative geniuses as Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, René Magritte and Man Ray.
$18.95
9782843233784
Fayum
By Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter

Miraculously hidden in the shroud of the Egyptian desert are a thousand portraits of "Fayum" (so named because of the region where most of them were found). These portraits have fascinated throughout the centuries because of their...
$18.95
9782843236280
Fornasetti
By Brigitte Fitoussi

Piero Fornasetti is often described as a visionary. A Milan artist, Fornasetti was at the same time a painter, sculptor, designer, craftsman, and an engraver of art books. In his lifetime, he created more than 11,000 items, most of which are..
$18.95
9782843236792
Greek Beauty
By Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter

Goddess, nymph, muse, or merely mortal, women never ceased to inspire Greek sculptors and painters. Far from representing an ideal beauty of young athletes with exultant bodies, these sensuous feminine models recount to us the...
$18.95
9782843235511
Miro's Studio
By Juan Punyet Miro & Jean-Marie Del Moral

In this book,the photographs of Jean-Marie del Moral re-create the poetic universe of the grand atelier, crowded with the objets trouves and household items that fited Miro's imagination...
$18.95
9782843236259
Peggy Guggenheim
By Paolo Barozzi

Peggy Guggenheim is the true story of a twenty year friendship between the author (a Venetian nobleman) and the famous art collector Peggy Guggenheim.
$18.95
9782843236594
Picabia
By Alain Jouffroy

An iconoclastic poet and painter, open to everything that was "other" and different, responsive to any form of newness...Francis Picabia never needed to define himself as a "modern."
$18.95
9782843234040
Picasso: The Objects
By Edward Quinn

In Picasso's hands, cardboard, paper and rope metamorphose into a guitar, a goat, a woman...
$18.95
9782843234255
Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris
By Franck Maubert

The work, nothing but the work. That should be enough. But with Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, how can one leave the man aside? How can you not combine his life and his very existence, with his work as an artist?
$18.95
9782843236556
Vienna 1900
By Francois Baudot

Fifty or so artists with a different sensibility and a common determination: to be free of the bourgeois morality and its obsolete traditions. To break with the classicism of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on its decline.
$18.95
9782843238178
The Dada Spirit
By Emmanuelle De L'Ecotais

This onomatopoeia suggesting a child's babbling started one of the most important mutations in the history of art. But what is Dada? Born of the First World War, Dada is a movement bringing together both artists and writers.
$18.95
9782843234187
Robert Indiana
By Nathan Kernan

Robert Indiana, famous as a pioneering Pop artist in the 1960s, and renowned for making his LOVE sculptures, paintings, and posters has rencently had a monumental comeback in New York City
$18.95
9782843235252
Brancusi: Photographs
By Elizabeth A. Brown

Constantin Brancusi, the great twentieth-century sculptor, was also a talented and experimental photographer. Some of his remarkable photographs are shown here: self-portraits and studio shots that...
$18.95
9782843234095
Gauguin, Noa Noa
By Marc Le Bot

An early explorer of modern art, Paul Gauguin left France for Tahiti, where he immersed himself in Maori mythology. Noa Noa, his intimate journal of writings, watercolors, and woodcuts, was discovered years after he left the island.
$18.95
9782843235627