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Frieze Masters 2023
11-15 October 2023
Shapero Rare Books & Shapero Modern are honoured to be participating in the 2023 edition of FRIEZE MASTERS, located in the north-west corner of London's Regents Park.
Visit us at Stand A08 to see Francisco Goya's legendary portfolio of 80 etchings ‘Los Caprichos’, alongside other books including many fine livres d’artistes, as well as a superb selection of prints by 20th-century masters. Amongst these are Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Cy Twombly.
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Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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Los Caprichos.
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de.Original price £200,000.00 - Original price £200,000.00Original price £0.00£200,000.00£200,000.00 - £200,000.00Current price £200,000.00One of approximately 300 copies. The complete set of eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, 1797-1798, on laid paper. A v...
View full detailsOriginal price £200,000.00 - Original price £200,000.00Original price £0.00£200,000.00£200,000.00 - £200,000.00Current price £200,000.00 -
Queen Ntombi Twala, from Reigning Queens
WARHOL, AndyOriginal price £32,500.00 - Original price £32,500.00Original price £0.00£32,500.00£32,500.00 - £32,500.00Current price £32,500.00Queen Ntombi Twala is one of four portraits which makeup Warhol's renowned portfolio Reigning Queens, 1985. Each of the four Queens were chosen by...
View full detailsOriginal price £32,500.00 - Original price £32,500.00Original price £0.00£32,500.00£32,500.00 - £32,500.00Current price £32,500.00 -
L'Art Décoratif Théatral Moderne.
GONCHAROVA, Natalia; LARIONOV, Mikhail; PARNAKH, Valentin.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00One of 100 large paper copies with 2 additional prints. The scarce publication reproducing Goncharova and Larionov's works for the avant-garde stag...
View full detailsOriginal price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00 -
Swan Engraving Circle I, State V
STELLA, FrankOriginal price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00Swan Engraving Circle I is linked to Stella's wider series called Circuits (1980-84), whereby all the artworks are linked through the theme of fra...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
