300 years before color BLACK & GOLD EDITION

The work of art that was created 300 years before Pantone

MORE THAN 900 PAGES WRITTEN AND PAINTED ENTIRELY BY HAND

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300 YEARS BEFORE COLOR Black & Gold Edition

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300 YEARS BEFORE COLOR Black & Gold Edition

The work of art that was created 300 years before Pantone

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300 YEARS BEFORE PANTONE, AN ARTIST MIXED AND DESCRIBED EVERY COLOR IMAGINABLE IN A 912-PAGE BOOK.

Limited Artistic Edition of 1,592 copies, each numbered and signed.
Facsimile book that reproduces the original.
Also includes 10 limited-edition art prints for collecting or framing.

And a book with English texts by renowned artists from the art world, museum directors, graphic designers, advertising creatives, etc.

220 Euros

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LIMITED AND NUMBERED FACSIMILE EDITION OF 1,592 COPIES

It was 1960 when Lawrence Herbert was working at a color printing and sales company primarily dedicated to cosmetics. This businessman and great visionary decided to acquire the assets of a company that was $50,000 in debt.

In 1962, Herbert founded Pantone, creating a new formula using 10 pigments to achieve more uniform results and resulting in a 500-color guide. It was immediately successful in companies dedicated to the graphic, industrial, and textile arts; a great example of its usefulness was the Kodak brand, which during the 1950s began to suffer significant losses in the sale of its photographic film because the yellow color in its boxes didn't always share its uniformity, causing people to reject packaging with a darker shade, leading them to believe it wasn't the brand's original or perhaps had expired.

These color guides, so well-known and widely used in the design world, are a must-have that have also managed to make their way into the creative world, varying and playing with increasingly surprising models.

But 300 years before Pantone... what many don't know is that the first Pantone-like guide was created by a Dutch artist. In 1692, A. Boogert wrote a detailed work in which he presented colors and their scales in watercolor, revealing their nuances to the world by mixing them together. More than 900 pages written and painted entirely by hand.

Only one copy of this sensational and advanced volume exists in the Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence, France. This is because in 1692, printing presses did not yet have the technology necessary to print a treatise of this nature. It would be another hundred years before it could be reproduced with any degree of reliability using lithography.

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His facsimile of de Boogert's work is a magnificent addition to my bookshelf, and will be invaluable in my explorations of the way artists perceive and use color.

Jane Jelley
Oxford, United Kingdom
Author, Traces of Vermeer

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My wife loves it and will use it as inspiration for her future artwork.
If you ever plan to publish a similar gem, please don't hesitate to contact us. We'd be very interested.

Cor Schreurs
Elizabethtown
Canada

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Customer reviews

Emily Bowen | ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
My wife loves it and will use it as inspiration for her future artwork.
Regina McCormick & Tyler Mann | ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
We've received our copy. I just wanted to say that it's very nice and that we're really enjoying it. My husband and I are designers and artists.
Frank Santoro | ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
As someone who works in color both in real life and online, this facsimile reproduction of the 1692 "Color Bible" is, in some ways, life-affirming.
Mike | ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
I bought it for myself as a gift and I wasn't disappointed. The presentation and workmanship are impeccable. Bravo!

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NEW FACSIMILE EDITION

This 912-page book is a new facsimile edition of A. Boogert's original "Traité des couleurs servant a la peinture a l'eau" (Traité of Colors Servant to Water Painting); a numbered, limited, worldwide edition of 1,592 copies, in honor of the year Boogert wrote the book.

In this new facsimile edition: the yellow leatherette hardcover reproduces the original with the four spine ribs and the original cover design.

The interior is printed on CORAL BOOK IVORY volume offset, a bone-toned paper that imitates and reproduces the papers of the time.

An elegant, printed case that includes, in addition to the book, a numbered and printed certificate of originality and ten magnificent limited-edition art prints on rough 250-gram Symbol Free Life paper, perfect for framing or simply collecting.

The book reproduces the original text in the author's native language. Over the more than 900 pages, the artist provides the proportions of pigment and water needed to create each color, along with its tones and shades. To illustrate his explanations, he draws each page with the colors he's discussing. In addition to an index listing and arranging all the colors, Boogert states in the introductory text that the book was created for educational purposes.

With over 900 pages written and painted entirely by hand, "Le Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l'eau" was the most comprehensive painting and color guide of its time.

The result was a splendid teaching guide. But the irony is that only one copy existed, which was probably seen by very few people. Had it not been so, it would have served as an indispensable tool for many artists for centuries.

The book is accompanied by a booklet: The Magnificent Figures of Color, with texts by prestigious artists, art curators, writers, museum directors... on some of the most important painters in history in terms of the use of color: Vermeer, Rothko, Basquiat, Sorolla...

An ode to color, to Pantone: the essential color guide in the universe of creativity and design whose use has transcended centuries to remain a fundamental tool in the contemporary era.

* The final retail price will be 220 euros.

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For someone who works with color, both in real life and online, this facsimile reproduction of the 1692 "Color Bible" is, in a way, life-affirming.

Frank Santoro
Pittsburgh, PA
United States (US)

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When the ad for this piece appeared on Instagram, I immediately showed it to my husband; we both knew we had to have it.

Regina McCormick and Tyler Mann
Stafford, VA
United States (US)

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What's included

CASE

An elegant black case, containing the original facsimile book and a PANTONE GOLDEN EGG printed label, numbered 1 to 1,592.

CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY

Certificate of originality, numbered from 1 to 1,592, printed on 350 gram NEW PIONNER paper.

LIMITED EDITION PRINT COLLECTION

Ten prints per collector's edition, selected and limited to 1,592 copies, printed on 350-gram NEW PIONNER paper, perfect for framing or simply collecting.

STUDY BOOK

A booklet, The Magnificent Artists of Color, in which renowned artists from the art world, museum directors, art curators, Dutch painting specialists, writers... offer their perspective on seven of the most important painters in history in terms of their use of color: Vermeer, Basquiat, Sorolla...

In contrast, an article on the "colorless" grisaille technique used by artists since the Middle Ages and throughout the early modern period makes use of gray tones and incorporates a sense of monumentality and a unique sculptural dimension into the painting.

In English and Spanish.