Isbn: 9798875001116 - the woman with fifty faces: maria lani & the greatest art heist that never was (6 Ergebnisse)

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Pinson, Zachary J. (illustrator).

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Pinson, Zachary J. (illustrator).

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. Pinson, Zachary J. (illustrator).

Zustand: NEW. Pinson, Zachary J. (illustrator).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New York Public Library Best Comics for Adults 2025 Most Anticipated Graphics Novels For Summer 2025 - Comics Beat On April 7, 1928, Maria Lani blew into Paris claiming to be a famous German actress and proceeded to seduce the cultural elite with her undeniable charisma and strangely enticing enigmatic aura. She persuaded fifty artists --Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Georges-Henri Rouault, Fernand Léger and Suzanne Valadon among them-- to immortalize her in paintings and sculptures, which would appear as an important plot device in a forthcoming film. Unveiled as an exhibition in New York, the art works traveled to Chicago, London, Berlin, Rotterdam, and Paris. But, in 1931, as legend eventually had it, she and her husband Max Abramowicz vanished without a trace, and so did the art. The film was never made. The Woman With Fifty Faces is about uncovering as much of the truth about Maria Lani as possible. The images that cascade through the book are stunningly beautiful, deeply compassionate, and farcically grotesque, capturing the essence of Lani's life. From Poland's antisemitic pogroms to the vulgar glamour and decadence of 1920s Paris to the Nazi occupation of France in the '40s, the tumultuous Europe Lani traverses becomes nearly as much of a character as Lani herself. Jonathan Lackman spent two decades researching Lani's life and Zachary J. Pinson spent 5,000 hours putting pen to paper. The result is a masterful collaboration about identity and the power and limits of reinvention. Pinson, Zachary J. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Signed by both Lackman and Pinson to the title page and copyright page. As new. BP/Signed Books/Above locked cabinet. Pinson, Zachary J. (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).