Sergeant, Philippe, Donald Sultan: Appoggiatures, 2 Vols., French text, 1989, SC, VG.

Sergeant, Philippe. Paris: E.L.A. La Différence, 1989.

French, Very Good, SC, 8vo, 10 3/4" x 8", [8] 81 + 7 pp; Unpaginated [110 plates].

ISBN: 2729104429 

Very Good white pictorial softcover set, text in French featuring Donald Sultan's 1985 artwork "Two Apples, a Pear and a Lemon" to front panels, full-color photograph of Donald Sultan to back panels, black and red lettering to front panel and spine, bent crease to head, light wear, otherwise clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. [8] 81 + 7 pp. Vol. 1 includes black-and-white images, five sections (Première - Cinquième Appoggiatures): "L'illimité et le fini," "Histoire de l'oeil," "L'équation," "Malgré que," "La ressemblance," and Index of Images. Unpaginated. Vol. 2 includes 110 full-color images, including one fold-out. Theorist and art critic Philippe Sergeant examines Sultan's "accompaniments" which attempt to resolve the inherent tension between abstraction and representation. An involved philosophic inquiry on "New Image" artist and sculptor Donald Sultan (b.1951).