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.
From the author of Self-Portrait, her book about Lucian Freud, comes a collection of remarkable, imagined letters with Gwen John, an artist with whom Paul has always felt a close connection.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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