Walter Spies Collectors Suite
- Title
- Walter Spies Collectors Suite
- Original language
- English
- Author(s)
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- Publisher
- Afterhours Books
- ISBN
- 6029658816
- Publication date
- 2012
- Subjects
- Walter Spies
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Description(s)
The most lavish, giant and luxurious limited edition of Indonesia's most famous foreign artist who contributed so much to the development of arts and culture of Bali prior to the World War 2. Only 150 units ever produced worldwide, this Walter Spies Collectors Suite is truly one of a kind that is a must-have collection for true art/book collectors.
Review(s)
This is the most luxurious and largest edition we ever produced. It's so grand that it won The Best Book in the World at the prestigious Benny Award 2012 in the USA. The first Indonesian book to ever achieved such status. A one-of-a-kind, luxury edition for discerning art/book collectors of the most magnificent foreign artist ever lived in Indonesia. When he died 70 years ago, the artist Walter Spies was known to only a few close friends. Now he is prized as one of the finest painters of the tropical landscape. In the turmoil of war and the turbulence of the post-war years, his fate remained for a time unknown and his life and deeds in Bali gradually took on mythic proportions. He was remembered almost as a founding figure, one who had taken the arts of Bali to unprecedented heights. What remains of Walter Spies, the lasting documents of his achievement, are a mere handful of works, if we compare them with the prodigious output of many painters. He completed no more than 80 major paintings, of which only about 40 are known to still exist. Spies’ works have always been prized by their owners and they have remained in private hands. This means they were for a long time not generally well known and it has proved hard to bring them together for an exhibition. However, larger exhibitions were held in the Netherlands in 1964 and again in 1980, with many works in the latter exhibition also shown in Germany. full review at https://afterhoursbooks.myshopify.com/products/walter-spies
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