About the cover:

Full-grain binding, mini-book Seven watercolours on half cardboard as single sheets attached to folds. Dark red ‘long grain’ goatskin with grain, several pieces of leather set end to end, silver embossed title à la chinoise on smooth spine, hand-stitched endpapers, light grey box calf on edge, light grey paper flyleaf, half-leather chemise with the same box calf and lined with dark red suede, cover of red and black striped Japanese paper, slipcase edged with box calf and covered with yellow Japanese paper.

About the content:

Gerlinde Gschwendtner: Nudes

Seven watercolours in 50 x 70 mm format, commissioned by her son, Arno Gschwendtner, from Anick Butré

Unique 2016 Gerlinde Gschwendtner (born 1940) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Robin Anderson and Herbert Boeckl. She is a freelance artist who teaches fine art, in particular watercolour painting, in Germany and Austria.

About the artist: Anick Butré is one of the few book artists who paints, engraves, designs, binds and at the same time works as a publisher.

She has published 45 titles of mini-books in 10 to 30 copies each. In total, she has designed and bound over 500 covers, a large proportion of which are mini-books measuring approx. 45 x 55 mm.

As a specialist in the design and binding of such mini-books, she held courses at the AAAV (Ateliers d'Arts Appliqués du Vésinet), where she had also received her own training. She has won several prizes and taken part in numerous exhibitions.