This illustrated biography looks at Nash's friendships and relationships, especially with his remarkable wife, Christine Kuhlenthal. A rounded and personal biography that complements Lambirt... read more
APPEAR - Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research - is an international collaboration between conservationists, scientists and curators around the world, set up in 2013. ... read more
She was B-J's muse for the last 25 years of his life, but, unlike most of the other Pre-Raphaelite women, she survived into a self-determining life and was friendly with Wilde, Einstein, Asq... read more
Beautiful, large-format book containing the eight 'livres d'artiste' that Matisse created while living in Vichy France. Includes his illustrations for Baudelaire's 'Les fleurs du mal', Malla... read more
The American artist best known for his conceptual work was also a prolific print maker, making lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts, and linocuts. Many illustrations.
From the author of the biography of Shchukin comes the story of another extraordinary pre-Revolutionary Russian collector of European art. He spent 1.5 million francs on 486 paintings, which... read more
A good new book on the Bloomsbury group and its visual aesthetic - the Omega Workshops and photography as well as their artistic contributions as painters, models, collectors and critics; in... read more
RJ came to botanical painting relatively late, and later still to success. This memoir of her life as a painter also talks about her childhood, and about both Augustus John and Gwen John, he... read more
Comprises excerpts of Rodin's writing on French cathedrals. He believed that cathedrals were visual metaphors for the human figure, and were being ruined by restoration. In the David Zwirne... read more
Craske's revisionist account of the 'painter of light' casts him in a rather more crepuscular emotional gloaming. Fascinating and deeply researched; illustrated of course.
An updated edition of Barnes's acclaimed essays on artists - mostly French - that includes 7 new ones. Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Morisot, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Cassatt, ... read more
The textile artist and printmaker and the painter, designer and teacher, who began their life together in the Bauhaus movement and fled to America in 1933, where they became influential teac... read more
A lively history of sculpture from the pre-Ice Age lion-man, made of bone, to Eliasson and Saraceno's use of light and air. Who better to celebrate the elements of (and in) sculptural form t... read more
The C19th French ceramicist was celebrated for his innovative glazes and love of stoneware. His forms were often based on gourds, fruit and Japanese bottles.
Understated, exquisite photographs of the interiors of Twombly's life by Tacita Dean, Francois Halard, Twombly himself and a dozen others. Each is a careful study in light and texture, the s... read more
A substantial book on a marvellous Norwegian artist still little known in this country, other than through a small exhibition at the National Gallery in 2014. The Gundersen collection compri... read more