Franstalig. Zeer goede staat!

Erg bijzonder, want namelijk met Opdracht en signatuur van de Pop Art kunstenaar Bob Stanley aan "Caroline". Zij was de (schoon)dochter van de eigenaar (Albert Vogel) van Galerie Orez te Den Haag (Waar Bob Stanley in de jaren 60 ook een expositie had) en later was Caroline zelf eigenaar van "Ornis internationale Galerij", Den Haag op hetzelfde adres. De opdracht en handtekening zijn in 1995 in inkt gezet in de tuin van het restaurant La Colombe D'or.. Bijzondere opdracht binnen de kunstscene! (Dit boek had ik van Caroline overgenomen samen met andere boeken....)

Bob Stanley, 1932-1997 was a pioneer of the Pop Art movement in the US - an American artist best known for translating newspaper photographs and other commercial imagery into gritty works on canvas - before some of his more famous contemporaries. Robert Stanley or just Bob Stanley, was born in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1932. After attending Columbia University for two years, he received a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1953 from Oglethorpe College in Atlanta and studied art at the High Museum of Art there.

La Colombe d’Or hotel and restaurant in the South of France is known all over the world as a privileged place where the Provençal art de vivre goes hand in hand with an astonishing private COLLECTION of modern art. First opened in 1920 as Chez Robinson, a café-bar with an open-air terrace, it quickly became a very popular meeting place and expanded into a small hotel and restaurant. The friendly atmosphere together with owner Paul Roux’s deep interest in the arts attracted many artists of the day, and the walls were soon covered by paintings, often exchanged for a stay or a few meals. As regular visitors to this beautiful place, Matisse, Braque, Léger, Calder, César, and many other artists have left magnificent works that now form part of the unique setting, including splendid pages in the fascinating guest books―presented to the world for the first time in this volume―in which the greatest artists of our time have drawn and signed moments of happiness. The next generation of the Roux family continues to care for the Colombe d’Or, and the art COLLECTION is still growing today.

“Provence has a treasure; it’s a Colombe d’Or. It has the precious scent of thyme and nostalgia and the golden colour of olive oil and happy days. The Colombe is a part of my life. For me, it’s a place that’s as full of promise as of magnificent memories. The Colombe is indefinable, inimitable. I’m happy that today a book brings back the atmosphere of this place which is like no other in the world.”