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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. 1948 first edition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It has been evident to every artist who has worked in the medium of oil paint for the last two centuries or more that certain qualities of color and modelling and brilliance of sur- face which seem to have been the common possession of earlier schools of painting were with the resources currently at their disposal completely beyond their power to recapture. Whatever genius or gift for artistic expression they may have possessed there was without question something lacking in the quality of their works something missing in the material on their palettes. There is a tragic mass of testimony on the subject of the struggles the artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had with their technique; and there are many artists of the twentieth century who even in the midst of the confusion of standards that surround them realize like their confreres of the last two centuries that the key has been lost. This book then is written for those artists today who are still haunted by the apparently unattainable perfec- tion of the great masters and it is hoped that many of them may find the clue that will lead them to a realization of their aims.