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.
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.
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
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