European Artists: Signatures and Monograms, 1800-1990, Including Selected Artists from Other Parts of the World

by John Castagno

Overview

This volume lists more than 4,800 European and 400 Australian, South African, and Japanese artists who worked from 1800 to 1990, and offers 9,000 signature examples. Five special categories in the back of this volume help to identify signatures that are difficult to read. In the front of this volume is a listing of 69 sources of information, which can also lead the researcher to more than 100 additional sources transcribed into key letters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810823136
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/01/1990
Series:	The Scarecrow Art Reference Series
Pages:	916
Product dimensions:	8.76(w) x 11.30(h) x 2.02(d)

About the Author

John Castagno is a multimedia artist and sculptor. He has been an art researcher for the past forty years and also lectures on art and on art as an investment. Mr. Castagno's recent books include Abstract Artists: Signatures and Monograms, An International Directory, From 1900 (2007), American Artists II: Signatures and Monograms, From 1800 (2007), Artists' Monograms and Indiscernible Signatures II: An International Directory, From 1900 (2007), and European Artists II: Signatures and Monograms, From 1800 (2007).

Editorial Reviews

...fills a need...more accurate if narrower in scope than H.H. Caplan's...Recommended for the larger museum and research libraries.

Choice Reviews

...excellent...essential for any serious art collector or dealer...the only directory of European signatures to include biographical, bibliographical and pictorial sources of information.

The Antiquer's Guide

Totally unique in content...a broad range of references...a necessary directory for researchers.

George Radan

...this niche has now been ably filled...Collectors, dealers, scholars, auction houses and others interested in fine art will find this book a useful guide and definitive asset to their fine art library.

Fine Art and Auction Review

...a definitive approach to artists' signatures...Given its comprehensiveness, it should be in every serious Western art research collection.

American Reference Books Annual

...fills a need...more accurate if narrower in scope than H.H. Caplan's...Recommended for the larger museum and research libraries.

Choice

Totally unique in content...a broad range of references...a necessary directory for researchers.--George Radan, Professor, Villanova University

...fills a need...more accurate if narrower in scope than H.H. Caplan's...Recommended for the larger museum and research libraries.--CHOICE

...this niche has now been ably filled...Collectors, dealers, scholars, auction houses and others interested in fine art will find this book a useful guide and definitive asset to their fine art library.--Fine Art and Auction Review

From the Publisher

...fills a need...more accurate if narrower in scope than H.H. Caplan's...Recommended for the larger museum and research libraries.

CHOICE

...a definitive approach to artists' signatures...Given its comprehensiveness, it should be in every serious Western art research collection.

American Reference Books Annual (ARBA)

Castagno lists some 4,800 European and some 400 Australian, South African, and Japanese artists who worked from 1,800 to the present, and offers 9,000 signature examples. The main section contains all the entries, their nationality, birth and death dates, bibliographical and many pictorial references, signature facsimiles and auction records. Four special sections at the back help to identify particularly problematic signatures: monograms, symbols/illegible signatures, Cyrillic and Japanese. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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