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.
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
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
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
Beautifully photographed sculptural ceramics from the collection of Anthony Shaw. Includes pieces by Gordon Baldwin, Ewen Henderson and Gillian Lowndes.
Accompanies a major retrospective at MoMA of her drawings, prints and sculptures. Few have portrayed human anguish so convincingly, with lines etched so hard they seem to ache.
A day with Monet - and his wife, children and grand-children - from before dawn to sundown - in the house and garden at Giverny. Figes' achievement in this novella is her delicate layering o... read more
A short biography of the woman who managed Leach Pottery in Cornwall for forty years and was a fine potter in her own right. She met her husband, Bernard, in New York in the wake of the Grea... read more
Charts the influence of the Bauhaus in England and America in the 1930s, expanding on the school's influence on modernist art and architecture. Pairs well with Gavin Stamp's Interwar.
Furniture, objects, designs, textiles and drawings by the great designer of the Viennese Arts & Crafts movement. To accompany the current exhibition at the Brussels Museum of Art and History... read more
This staggering account of corruption in the art world began when RD was approached in 2003 by Hockney, who had recently had two Warhol pictures denounced as fakes.
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
In addition to his huge abstract canvasses, Rothko produced more than 1,000 paintings on paper, many of which have been gathered for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.