The Merry Piper
by GAZE, Harold
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Commercial publishing success in the United States eventually led Gaze to settle in Pasadena where he continued his dual career as a munitions expert, truly an odd blend of violence and sensitivity. Gaze is a confident and skilful watercolourist, a master of the opaque application technique that gives his work a feel of magical translucence. The plates and vignettes are reminiscent of the work of Arthur Rackham and Charles Folkard although Gaze's work seems to lack their underlying sinister qualities. Many images are bizarre, but never macabre. Solo shows of his fantasy paintings in Los Angeles earned him the appellation of ‘The Bubble Man'. It is said that Gaze worked with the Disney studios on Fantasia.
Work by Harold Gaze is held in the National Museum of American Illustration, the Pasadena Museum of History, and the San Diego Museum of Art, among others. First English edition. Small quarto, original decorated cloth (spine rubbed), frontispiece and seven full-page colour plates, numerous line drawings, illustrated endpapers; localised tide-mark affects the top-edge margin of the frontispiece, otherwise this book is in very good order. Contemporary ownership inscription on half-title page.
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- Bookseller
- Rare Illustrated Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 609
- Title
- The Merry Piper
- Author
- GAZE, Harold
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Fairy Theme; Magic;
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