Hiro Yamagata, Austin Jaynes, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1986, SIGNED

Jaynes, Austin. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1986

English, 2nd Printing, Fine hardcover, square quarto, 11 ¼” x 11 5/16”, 144 pp.

ISBN: 0883633868 

Fine square quarto, dark blue cloth over boards, stamped gilt lettering to front and spine, signed by Yamagata, with inscription to Anne Rudin, former mayor of Sacramento, California: “To Mayor Anne Rudin, Best Regards Always…10.17.1986” to front free endpaper, includes 3 laid-in pages of ephemera, article by Martin Lawrence Galleries. Near Fine pictorial dust jacket with detail of Snow Fire, 1986, gilt lettering to front and spine, black spine, minimal soiling. Text in English, contents include Foreword by Martin S. Blinder, References, replete with full-color serigraphs of paintings and black-and-white photographs, ”lavish color and duotone plates document in brilliant hues the charm of Yamagata’s paintings” (from the flap). A beautiful monograph on Yamagata’s detailed contemporary traditional paintings and his photorealist, neoprimitive, and naif style.