A very smart piece of book production: off-white, clothbound boards with a thick cellophane dustjacket superimposing a photograph of one of Calder's mobiles onto the cover. Rich, crisp, high... read more
A memoir of perhaps the most astonishing art deal of the 20th century, by the late and charismatic art dealer Oliver Hoare ( 1945-2018).
In July 1994, on the tarmac of Vienna airport, a c... read more
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.
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