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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition.Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1908. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The European capitals and to the United States; so strong indeed that ever since then the eye had seen as it were Fortuny only when the modern Art of his country was mentioned. The effort in the Exhibition at the Guildhall was to show that while Fortuny might stand pre-eminently above his fellows there were others of his nationality entitled to hold high positions and whose reputations in Spain and France were by no means inconsiderable but whose established fame as painters had failed to reach these shores. It was not an easy task to accomplish inasmuch as no book existed in any language which dealt with the modern painters of Spain. There were the catalogues of the biennial exhibitions of modern works in Madrid and of the modern museum of that city and there were the names of certain painters of prominence in the catalogues of the Salons in Paris and occasionally but very seldom in those of our Royal Academy; but beyond these sources all information necessary in forming an Exhibition in any degree representative such as that attempted at the Guildhall had to be obtained by the kindness of friends in the Spanish capital. (OS)