Bidspirit auction | GUIMARÃES (Alfredo) & SARDOEIRA (Albano).

GUIMARÃES (Alfredo) & SARDOEIRA (Albano). MOBILIÁRIO Artístico Português: Elementos para a sua História, Guimarães. Porto. 1925. - GUIMARÃES (Alfredo) & SARDOEIRA (Albano) MOBILIÁRIO Artístico Português: Elementos para a sua História, Guimarães . Porto: Marques Abreu e Edições Pátria, 1925. XVI, 182, [4] pp., 85 ff. com fotogravuras: il.; 260 mm. First edition of the volume dedicated to Guimarães, the second in the series * Portuguese Artistic Furniture (Elements for its History)* , which began in 1924 with the volume on Lamego. The work is authored by Alfredo Guimarães (Guimarães, 1882-1958), writer, art critic and first director of the Alberto Sampaio Regional Museum (a position he held from 1931 to 1952), in collaboration with Albano Sardoeira. Profusely illustrated with prints on coated paper and drawings in the text, it constitutes one of the reference works in the Portuguese artistic bibliography of the first quarter of the 20th century, documenting the furniture and decorative arts of the municipality of Guimarães preserved in religious institutions and private collections. The lot consists only of the volume relating to Guimarães; the volume on Lamego is missing. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate