A selection of Avery's paintings and watercolours, with recent work by a few contemporary artists he has influenced. Accompanies a show at MICAS in Malta.
L'Estampe originale was a French quarterly periodical that published portfolios of prints for a very limited number of subscribers. It lasted for nine issues only between 1893 and 1895. Repr... read more
Castles, villas, forests, frescoes, abbeys and salt pans: lesser-known sites in the care of the FAI - the Fondo Ambiente Italia, Italy's equivalent to the National Trust. Handsome, with 300 ... read more
Besides looking at the artist's paintings and works on paper, this book includes many previously unpublished documents and photographs from the family archives.
Looks at three groups of wandering herders in three very different regions - the Central Sahara, the Arabian Gulf and the Central Eurasian steppes. Many photographs.
With its grottoes, terraces and fountains, the Villa d'Este has arguably the finest garden of the Italian Renaissance. Stunning photographs of both villa and garden, with a text by the direc... read more
The catalogue to accompany an exhibition at Museo delle Culture di Lugano in the Villa Malpensata, home to the Montgomery Collection. Textiles, paintings, objects of quotidian use, etc.
From the collection of an Italian banker whose work financed infrastructure such as railways, mines, electric power stations and shipping companies in the Near East.
Breathtaking shots from the Himalayas to the Dolomites, via Africa, Patagonia, Alaska... with suitably lofty quotations (Dante, Byron, Austen, Nietzsche et al) alongside them.
A substantial book on a marvellous Norwegian artist still little known in this country, other than through a small exhibition at the National Gallery in 2014. The Gundersen collection compri... read more
A facsimile edition of the book produced in 1931 by Albert Skira, then a young man of twenty-five, who persuaded Picasso to illustrate Ovid's poems. In due course he produced 30 etchings. Th... read more