Giuseppe Viviani - Lot with 3 books - 1968

1. Giuseppe Viviani – Acqueforti & Xilografie (General Catalogue)
Full title: Giuseppe Viviani. Acqueforti & Xilografie. Catalogue of the complete graphic works
Edited by: Giuseppe Marino.
Publisher: Edizioni ArtCenter, Milan.
Year of publication: 1977
Format: Hardcover with black cloth, large format (approximately 29 x 22 cm)
Pages: 320 pages (fully illustrated with reproductions of all catalogued engravings).
Description: This is the essential, systematically arranged general catalogue of all of Viviani’s etching and woodcut production. It is an indispensable working tool for art dealers, auction houses, and graphic art collectors to identify states, editions, and numerations of the artist’s prints.

2. Viviani lithographer (Nicola Micieli)
Full title: Viviani lithographer
Edited by: Nicola Micieli (with a foreword by Dino Carlesi and technical consultation by Silvio Guarasci).
Publisher: Bandecchi & Vivaldi, Pontedera.
Year of publication: 1993
Format: Square hardcover with orange cover (Cani, 1961) (approximately 24 x 22 cm)
Pages: 144 pages in total.
Description: Monograph fully devoted to Viviani’s lithographic production, with a rich repertory of full-page reproductions and detailed entries on the master’s lithographic stones.

3. Viviani (Vallecchi Editore)
Full title: Viviani
Texts by: Introduction by Enzo Carli; critical anthology, biography and bibliography edited by Pier Carlo Santini.
Publisher: Vallecchi Editore, Florence.
Year of publication: 1968
Format: Large hardcover volume with illustrated black dust jacket (featured is the work Il marinaio col triciclo, 1957).
Pages: 180 pages (including 38 color plates and 96 black-and-white plates out of the text).
Description: Important and historical posthumous monograph published under the aegis of the Istituto Finanziario per l’Arte - Finarte. It is regarded as one of the critical reference publications for the study of Viviani’s painting and its melancholic poetics.