The rise to prominence of the big auction houses in an explosive market: the former chairman of Sotheby's UK holds the cards and lays out a wonderful cast of kings, queens and knaves.
Catalogue of an exhibition at Château du Clos-Lucé, Amboise, which explores the scents of the period through the plants with which Leonardo was familiar with in childhood and, later, and t... read more
Delicious smallish-format book on Craxtons' drawings, sketches and paintings of cats, or those in which they frisk, entangled in chair legs, observant in trees, stretching for fish in a tave... read more
Dali's lobster telephone, Dora Maar's shell hand, Many, Ray, Magritte, Joseph Cornell, et alia: a cheerful amuse-bouche for the centenary of the outbreak of surrealism - grace à André Bret... read more
This C15th French manuscript revels in the peculiar, the fantastic and - just occasionally - the real. Our fear of 'the other' goes back a long way, it seems.
To accompany the exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery - a gallery that the first Yoshida visited in the late 1890s. Something of a hall a of mirrors is going on here, as Yoshida, aware of t... read more
Duff and Diana Cooper, Philip Sassoon, Henry 'Chips' Channon, Cecil Beaton, Maud Russell and the Mountbattens were amongst his patrons, for whom RW created everything from delightful book pl... read more
Still lifes from the Dresden Gemaldegalerie collection by painters from the Dutch and Flemish golden age, including Cornelis de Heem, Abraham Mignon and Rachel Ruysch.
Virginia, Vanessa, Ottoline and Vita at Garsington, Sissinghurst, Charleston, Monk's House... Delightful, small catalogue from the Garden Museum's equally bijou exhibition this summer.
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.
To accompany the exhibition at the V&A: 150 works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, David LaChapelle, Robert Mapplethorpe, Zanele Muholi, Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol,... read more
Small-scale sculptures - in stone, wood, terracotta, plaster, lead, plasticine, bronze - created in every decade of Moore's long career: the catalogue for the show at the Holburne Museum of ... read more
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
Sketches of Baldwin, in the form of personal essays, pen-and-ink drawings, charcoals, photographs, etc. From an exhibition at David Zwirner several years ago, which has only now taken shape ... read more
Published under the auspices of the Burlington Magazine, this is a series of 17 essays on aspects of the history of fine art conservation (from the conservation of the 'Ghent Altarpiece' to ... read more
Not all are hidden by luxuriant, pointy moustaches... The painter's only novel is a baroque and decadent tale set in the 1930s, first published in 1944.
Paintings from the first Impressionist exhibition 150 years ago, juxtaposed with works shown at the official salon of that year. To accompany the exhibition at the Musee d'Orsay, which will ... read more