The intersection of political jiggery-pokery and art and the growth of modern art in Britain: Hepworth, Nash (Paul), Bawden, Kokoschka, Moore, Picasso.
The agricultural landscape in English art in the C20th: with work by Stanley Spencer, Laura Knight, Clare Leighton, Evelyn Dunbar, Edward Burra, Ravilious (of course), CF Tunnicliffe, Julian... read more
From a major exhibition at MoMA which presents Lam as an important transnational artist. Born in Cuba, he spent most of his life in Spain, France and Italy. His style brings together Europea... read more
Like Cope's buses (and men) arriving in multiples after a long wait, we have two books on this intriguing Cuban painter, whose European influences include Braque, Picasso and Paul Klee...
Gorgeous coffee table book from Rizzoli on CLB, a British artist, recently president of the RA. The works presented here are abstract and intense: vigorous brushwork, exquisite palettes, sha... read more
To mark the centenary of Picasso's Three Dancers, the Tate Modern is staging an exhibition that celebrates his love of performance, with fifty-odd of his works inspired by musicians, actors,... read more
Spans his entire career, from training in postwar Dresden to international success, up to his most recent works in the last 5 years. From a major new show at Fondation Louis Vuitton.
This new, comprehensive exploration of Miller's life foregrounds her too-often-sidelined work as a surrealist. Accompanied by a series of essays, including a personal reflection from Deborah... read more
This new, comprehensive exploration of Miller's life foregrounds her too-often-sidelined work as a surrealist. Accompanied by a series of essays, including a personal reflection from Deborah... read more
A selection of McEwen's unsurpassable botanical watercolours; also sculpture, letters, photographs. To accompany a small show at the Garden Museum this autumn.
Larissa Salmina was a wild child of the USSR who rose to be Keeper of Italian Drawings at the Hermitage by her mid twenties; Francis Haskell was a distinguished, deracinated Cambridge art hi... read more
A mentor to Le Corbusier, Ozenfant was an artist and critic who ran art schools in Paris and London in the 1920s and '30s. Highly regarded, he knew everyone: Leonora Carrington was a student... read more
A comprehensive book on the widely admired and influential ceramic sculptor, who died earlier this year at a great age. As well as being a fine artist, Baldwin was a perceptive, gifted teach... read more
Last autumn's unforgettable exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery was the first major show on the artist and printmaker (and wife of Eric Ravilious) since 1952. The wood engravings, text... read more
A short, illustrated rumination on the work of Edvard Munch through nineteen paintings and drawings. It's as if we're looking over the acclaimed novelist's shoulder as she looks intently at ... read more
Handsome, large format, with generous illustrations. As new, with a pristine dustjacket. A bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).
First edition, first printing in very good condition, with a very good dust jacket. Minor foxing to the page block and to the inside of the dust jacket.
First edition, second printing in fine condition with a near-fine dust jacket. The jacket has a couple of small scratches and a minimal amount of shelf wear to top edge.
First edition in near-fine condition with a near-fine dust jacket; some very minor blue staining (3cm) at top inside of back board and endpaper; minimal shelf wear to dust jacket.