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Nicolas Party

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FORTHCOMING & NEW RELEASES

Nicolas Party: Murals

HAUSER & WIRTH PUBLISHERS
Text by Jamilee Lacy.

A luxurious linen quarter-bound monograph on the wall murals of Nicolas Party

Hbk, 11 x 13 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color. | 12/9/2025 | Awaiting stock
$85.00


   

ACTIVE BACKLIST

Nicolas Party: Watercolor

KARMA BOOKS, NEW YORK

Party’s new series of sumptuous sunsets and treescapes steeped in visionary splendor

Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 184 pgs / 116 color. | 3/1/2022 | Out of stock
$50.00


    

OUT OF PRINT LISTING

Nicolas Party: Still Life Paintings

KARMA BOOKS, NEW YORK

Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 104 pgs / 52 bw. | 1/22/2019 | Not available
$35.00


Nicolas Party: Pastel

KARMA, NEW YORK

Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 184 pgs / 91 color. | 2/27/2018 | Not available
$50.00


Nicolas Party: MuralsNicolas Party: Murals

Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
Text by Jamilee Lacy.

Mostly working in soft pastels, Swiss artist Nicolas Party (born 1980) has also experimented with pietra dura, ceramics, installations and sculptures, on various scales from the intimate to the gigantic. This linen quarter-bound volume documents his temporary mural works, which are often commissioned for institutional exhibitions and usually removed once the show closes. Collected together with a generous image selection and detail shots, these murals coalesce into a universe of brightly hued fantastical landscapes, characters and motifs, where perspective is heightened and skewed to uncanny effect to evoke deeper meanings. This in-depth exploration of an ephemeral aspect of Party's work is authored by Jamilee Lacy, Executive Director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle.



PUBLISHER
Hauser & Wirth Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 13 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Forthcoming

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2025 p. 98   

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ISBN 9783907493205 TRADE
List Price: $85.00 CAD $120.00

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STATUS: Forthcoming | 12/9/2025

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Nicolas Party: WatercolorNicolas Party: Watercolor

Published by Karma Books, New York.

This volume compiles nearly 50 recent watercolor paintings by Brussels- and Brooklyn-based Swiss artist Nicolas Party (born 1980). Party's perennial subjects are familiar yet uncanny: the sunsets and tree-laden landscapes in Watercolor are transformed through vibrant jewel-toned palettes and unorthodox compositions. His idiosyncratic approach conjures an immersive and surreal environment that is at once steeped in art historical references (Milton Avery, Ferdinand Hodler, Felix Vallotton) and extraordinarily distinctive.
Party reads trees and landscapes as “constant markers, essential ingredients which always need to be used,” referring to their storied lineage in visual culture. His watercolors emerge from this historical thicket: as he explains, “I like imagining a forest made of all the trees ever painted.”



PUBLISHER
Karma Books, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 184 pgs / 116 color.

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Pub Date
Active

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Catalog: FALL 2022 p. 116   

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ISBN 9781949172706 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CAD $69.00 GBP £42.00

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Out of stock

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

Nicolas Party: Still Life PaintingsNicolas Party: Still Life Paintings

Published by Karma Books, New York.

The latest book from Brussels- and Brooklyn-based Swiss artist Nicolas Party (born 1980) is a facsimile of a 2008 sketchbook in which Party has redrawn various still life paintings by William Nicholson, Giorgio Morandi, Euan Uglow and Felix Vallotton.



PUBLISHER
Karma Books, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 104 pgs / 52 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 193   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781949172041 FLAT40
List Price: $35.00 CAD $49.95 GBP £30.00

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STATUS: Out of print | 00/00/00

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Nicolas Party: PastelNicolas Party: Pastel

Published by Karma, New York.

Brussels- and Brooklyn-based Swiss artist Nicolas Party (born 1980) creates soft pastel drawings of trees, fruit, humans and landscapes that integrate his appetite for art history in their use of adopted pictorial languages. Party’s works are focused around four consistent visual “characters”: trees, fruit, humans and landscapes, rarely commingled in the same composition. Inspiration for his bare trees comes from Milton Avery; his single-stroke ocean swells from Ferdinand Hodler are occasionally lit by Felix Vallotton sunsets; and the eerie stares of his androgynous figures echo the apocalyptic vacancy of Christian Schad. These colorful pictures incorporate disparate and contradictory elements that create a complex optical effect of instability. Nicolas Party: Pastel documents the artist's 2017 show at Karma, New York, for which he conceived a unique environment in which to present the pastels.



PUBLISHER
Karma, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 184 pgs / 91 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 180   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781942607809 FLAT40
List Price: $50.00 CAD $67.50 GBP £45.00

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STATUS: Out of print | 00/00/00

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