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Electrifying memoir by a former art dealer about his erstwhile friend Inigo Philbrick who, having cut his teeth at White Cube, went on to make millions but came a cropper. He was extradited ... read more

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art ...

Orlando Whitfield

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The 1929 surrealist novel by the Italian painter. Or should that be 'the 1929 Italian novel by the surrealist painter'?

Hebdomeros: A Novel

Giorgio de Chirico

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Richly illustrated study from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

Arcimboldo, Bassano, Bruegel: Nature’s Time

Francesca Del Torre Scheuch

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A new, comprehensive book on the widely admired and influential ceramic sculptor, by one of Baldwin's former pupils. Gorgeous.

Gordon Baldwin – Inscape

Edward Hutchison

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An authoritative biography of the great chatelaine of Charleston.

Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical ...

Wendy Hitchmough

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The author of the magnificent Leviathan: or The Whale, turns his attention to Blake and his legacies, via Paul Nash, Derek Jarman, and creatures from the natural and metaphysical world.

William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love: How one visionary inspired ...

Philip Hoare

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Accompanies a series of international exhibitions to celebrate the centenary of the poet, artist & landscape designer's birth.

Fragments: Ian Hamilton Finlay

Pia Maria Simig

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The most substantial book so far on Artemisia Gentileschi.

Artemisia

Asia Graziano

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A celebration of the work of this wonderfully inventive artist, famed for his joy in the domestic and the natural: collages, textile designs, linocuts, wallpapers, sculptures and much else ... read more

Raucous Invention

Mark Hearld

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The first book on Hepworth's stringed sculptures, paintings and drawings. Smartly produced without a dustjacket, just clean-cut boards, for an exhibition at Piano Nobile.

Barbara Hepworth: Strings

Stephen Feeke

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From MoMA, on a recently found portfolio of her naturalistic early botanical work from 1919-20.

Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers

Jodi Hauptman

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Accompanying the exhibition in Paris at the Fondation Louis Vuiitton, this is the most substantial retrospective of the artist yet.

David Hockney

Norman Rosenthal

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16 years of conversations between the artistic director of the Serpentine and the grand fumador of Bradford.

The Hockney Interviews

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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The outstanding biography of the revered artist, film maker, gardener, diarist, gay rights campaigner and general scourge of bigotry was first published in 1991. This illustrated new edition... read more

Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography

Tony Peake

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A beautifully-produced 'artist's book', with many illustrations, tipped-in drawings and transparent interleaving. Developed from the artist's eponymous film first shown at the 2024 Vencie Bi... read more

William Kentridge: Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

William Kentridge

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To accompany the June-Oct exhibition at the RA.

Kiefer/Van Gogh

Simon Schama

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Ravishing woodcuts of traditional Japanese falconry, first published in1863. The notes and poems that accompany each plate are translated into English for the first time.

An Illustrated Mirror of Hawking: The Ehon Taka Kagami ...

Kawanabe Kyosai

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Extracts from the memoir of the great portraitist in the delicious little David Zwirner paperback 'Ekphrasis' series.

Souvenirs: From a Memoir

Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

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A gorgeous comparative study of two masters' experiments with chiaroscuro effects.

Leonardo / Durer: Renaissance Masterdrawings on Colored Ground ...

Ralph Gleis

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A slightly more accessible format (in terms of both price and heft) of the immense Taschen volume of 2019. Still generously large format, with fabulous photographs.

Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings

Winkel, Marieke de
Winkel, Marieke de

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A comprehensive catalogue, in the same format as his many other volumes on Sargent. (Ormond did a shorter book on this subject in 2019.)

John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits

Richard Ormond

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The Swiss-French painter was also a prolific illustrator, reviving the art of the woodcut in the late C19th. Some 250 of his woodcuts for books and periodicals are included in this handsome ... read more

L’Age du Papier: Felix Vallotton illustrateur ...

Katia Poletti

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Vibrant, vital works by a hundred leading artists of African diasporic, Latin American and Native American identity explore the complex connectivity of race, the climate crisis and coloniali... read more

Black Earth Rising

Ekow Eshun

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There were many, not just by Bawden and Ravilious but also by Olga Lehmann, Kenneth Rowntree, Michael Rothenstein et al. From the Fry Gallery.

Bardfield Murals: Ravilious, Bawden, Rowntree and Others ...

Neil Jennings

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Wyndham Lewis, Henri Gaudier et al who burst onto the art scene in the early C20th - and what happened to them. Many illustrations. By the author of Paul Nash: Designer and Illustrator.

‘Our Little Gang’: The Lives of the Vorticists ...

James King

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A dual-biography that shows the similarities between the passionate siblings as well as their differing ways of being in the world. Mackrell, the well-known dance critic, is also the author ... read more

Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Life and Loves of Gwen and Augustu ...

Judith Mackrell

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A fascinating study of art and national identity which considers the influence of foreign artists such as Holbein and Gentileschi, and foreign influences in the work of Hogarth, Kauffman and... read more

The Foreign Invention of British Art: From Renaissance to Enlightenmen ...

Leslie Primo

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A particularly Japanese sense of the transient is celebrated in these C14th wood carvings, woodcut depictions of water and butterfly dances, tea ceramics, lacquerware and contemporary pieces... read more

A Floating World: Movement and Impermanence in Japanese Art ...

Stephan von der Schulenburg

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The title sweeps together the disparate but connected groups of artists (writers, photographers, poets, composers and architects as well as painters) working in Sussex in the first half of t... read more

Sussex Modernism

Hope Wolf

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Lee Miller met Roland Penrose in Paris in 1937 on her return from a period of living in Cairo. This is a facsimile of their photograph album of that summer - spent with several friends inclu... read more

Summer of 1937 – Lee Miller / Roland Penrose

Antony Penrose

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A beautiful little hardback from Little Toller. On the animals - real and imagined - of the city of floating dreams.

A Venetian Bestiary

Jan Morris

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This glorious book contains reproductions of 95 gouaches that belonged to an C18th Swedish vice-admiral. The images are exquisite and romantic; the accompanying text is informative and light... read more

The Sampans from Canton: F H af Chapman’s Chinese Gouaches ...

Kurt Almqvist

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The catalogue for the spectacular exhibition at the National Gallery is in itself a gorgeous thing, with excellent reproductions of gilded and painted panels, many of them of a scale intende... read more

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350

Joanna Cannon

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A vivid reimagining of the tangled lattice of Picasso's love life, from the perspective of women determined to make sense of the past.

Picasso’s Lovers

Jeanne Mackin

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The author's uncle is the subject here, a working-class man whose interior life was a mystery to those around him until he shared a vast cache of paintings with his family. Full of humanity ... read more

The Secret Painter

Joe Tucker

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Another in Thames & Hudson's charming quarter-bound series; others include Beardsley, Ravilious, Constable's skies, etc. Well illustrated.

Vanessa Bell: Modern Living

Rosalind McKever

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