Paradise: The journal and letters (1917-1933) of Irma Stern by Stern, Irma
Paradise: The journal and letters (1917-1933) of Irma Stern by Stern, Irma.
Edited, with a commentary, by Neville Dubow
Hardcover, ISBN 9781874812081
Publisher: Chameleon Press 1991 1st edition, 1991
Edition: First edition, bound in imported backcloth and limited to 2000 copies
Size: 290 x 229
Used - Near Fine. 4to (29x23cms), 112 pages, bibliography, drawings, many illustrations in colour and b & w: great insight into the young artist's emotional vulnerability & creative drive, the journal is strikingly illustrated in colour.DJ protected with Cellophane.
Neville Dubow ended his acknowledgements with: "And, finally, my homage to Irma Stern. Towards the end of her life she expressed the hope that I would write a book about her. This is the second one; it is more than a book about her. It is, in every sense, her book."
The book's immediacy, passion and colour epitomise South Africa most highly rated painter - in 112 quarto pages, half in colour, including her 52 pp journal, "discovered, after the artist's death, lodged at the back of a disused cupboard in the studio of her house some time after its conversion into the Irma Stern Museum".
This is a rare unmarked, mint copy - protected dustjacket, grey cloth-boards, lettered in silver to the upper board and the spine, and illustrated text on matt art.