Ars Libri

Ars Libri at the MFA

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Ars Libri are pleased to announce the inauguration of a new collaborative venture, Ars Libri at the MFA. This is the first time that a distinguished museum bookstore has joined with an antiquarian firm to offer for sale the full range of art literature. Ars Libri at the MFA showcases rare and out-of-print books in a whole range of fields, with particular focus on current exhibitions at the Museum. Its first offering, Monet and His World , was coordinated with the record-breaking exhibition in the fall of 1998, while the second featured Modern Art. The third installation, featured The Age of Sargent, as well as selections from our stock on Asian, Renaissance and Baroque, and Modern art. The sixth installation, now on view, features Van Gogh, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. You will find the displays in two different sections of the Museum Shop.

Catalogues for each of these displays will be available at the Museum; copies will also be sent free of charge on request, as well as being accessible at the Ars Libri website. To look through (and order from) our current catalogues, just click on Monet and His World , Modern Art , Summer Exhibition: Selections from our Stock or Van Gogh: Face to Face. World Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

In addition to these special exhibitions, Ars Libri at the MFA presents a changing selection of individual rare books in other fields of the fine arts. Now on display in the Museum Shop are a fine copy of Oskar Kokoschka's Die traeumenden Knaben, one of masterpieces of the Wiener Werkstatte; Robert Lebel's Sur Marcel Duchamp, with two signed multiples by Duchamp; Henri Matisse's Les poemes de Charles d'Orleans , with 54 color lithographs by the artist; and a copy of Dorothea Tanning and Lena Leclercq's Personne, with 9 color etchings by Tanning, each cut in horizontal strips to enable the viewer to make different combinations of the prints.