The biographer of Clarice Lispector and Susan Sontag has spent years following the tracks of Dutch artists, exploring their work, their milieux and their subjects. This is a highly personal ... read more
Aztec art in Brussels, West African ivories in Antwerp... the great artists (D?rer, Bosch etc) were drawing on more than rediscovered classical texts. JJ considers the Renaissance as "a conv... read more
800 years of cave paintings, from the C2nd BC to the C6th CE: a revised edition with digitally restored images, and a new introduction by Dalrymple who has been researching the history of Bu... read more
A biographical study of this beguiling, exuberant artist that highlights his travels and the range of his work: oil portraits, pastels; orientalism, fashion...
Catalogue of the exhibition at Pallant House, in Chichester, which spans the life and work of this glorious, famously happy artist. With contributions by Ian Collins, David Attenborough, Edm... read more
First edition, first printing in very good condition with a very good dust jacket. Hicks considers the works of twenty four artists including Bacon, Freud, Hodgkin and Rego; many illustratio... 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
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
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.
A detailed portrait of the Jewish families whose collecting dominated the art world, and of their pillaging by the Nazis and the subsequent attempts at restitution.
Ten women: Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez (Picasso's mother), Maria Dolores Ruiz Picasso (his sister), Gertrude Stein, Fernande Olivier, Eva Gouel (Marcelle Humbert), Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thé... read more
A nifty little book on this fascinating artist. Queen of collage, doyenne of Dada, Höch's avant-garde approach to paper and photography cut to the heart of Germany's political and cultural ... read more
This long interview, recorded with the Swiss critic Pierre Courthion when the artist was recovering from an operation in bed during the Nazi Occupation, was never published - until now.
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
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.