Author: Crumb, Robert
Title: ART & BEAUTY MAGAZINE Nos. 1, 2 & 3 * Lot of Two Hardcover Books
Place Published: NY
Publisher:David Zwirner Books
Date Published: 2016
Description: Two hardcover copies of R. Crumb's Art & Beauty Magazine Nos. 1, 2 & 3, comprising the signed limited edition and the trade edition.

Art & Beauty Magazine Nos. 1, 2 & 3. Illustrated boards in slipcase. Six color plates, 109 black & white illustrations. Limited Edition of 400 signed copies. As-new, still sealed in shrinkwrap.
Art & Beauty Magazine Nos. 1, 2 & 3. Illustrated boards. Six color plates, 109 black & white illustrations. Trade edition. As-new, still sealed in shrinkwrap.
Hardcover editions of Crumb's Art & Beauty mag, a showcase for his obsession with gals with plump posteriors. These books reprint Art & Beauty #s 1 & 2, which were previously published as oversized magazines, as well as the previously-unpublished Art & Beauty #3.

"In recent years, with the exception of The Book of Genesis, much of Crumb's artistic attention has been focused on sketches and portraits rather than comics, as in his Art and Beauty Magazine, the last issue of which appeared in 2016. Like his sketchbooks, which have been collected and published in art book editions by Taschen, Art and Beauty Magazine features illustrations, many of female figures, alongside handwritten notes and quotations." – Daniel Worden (ed.), The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum. University Press of Mississippi: 2021, p. 13.______________________________________________________________

A limited edition of ten hardcover catalogues is available, in addition to a few dozen softcovers. Fun reference, great keepsake, fully illustrated, chockablock with obscure facts, gags, bon mots. Softcovers are $40, deluxe hardcovers with dust jackets and limitation plates are $200. These books always go fast so don't delay. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com.

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