A lavish book on this Georgian artist who lived c.1866-1918 and influenced Georgian and Russian avant-gardists and Modernists. Large format, many illustrations.
A short biography of the woman who managed Leach Pottery in Cornwall for forty years and was a fine potter in her own right. She met her husband, Bernard, in New York in the wake of the Grea... read more
He was Churchill's secretary and edited the work of Somerset Maugham and Sassoon; his proteg?s included Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer and many others.
The pursuit of two grandmothers, purged from the author's family history by her Hampstead communist parents: the vicissitudes of genealogy and family politics.
A biographical study of this beguiling, exuberant artist that highlights his travels and the range of his work: oil portraits, pastels; orientalism, fashion...