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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

Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy

Charles Darwent

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£25.00

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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

Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious

James Russell

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£25.00

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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

So in the Spruce Forest

Ali Smith

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£10.95

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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).

Edward Bawden & His Circle

Malcolm Yorke

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£30

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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.

Duncan Grant: A Biography

Frances Spalding

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£25

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First edition. As new, with a pristine dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear.

Derek Hill

Bruce Arnold

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£60.00

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As new copy in as new dustjacket of this scarce book, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Eric Ravilious: Memoir of an Artist

Helen Binyon

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£100

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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.

Edward Barnsley and His Workshop: Arts and Crafts in the Twentieth Cen ...

Annette Carruthers

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£100

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A novel about MacBryde and Colquhoun.

The Two Roberts

Damian Barr

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£18.99

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Catalogue of an extensive retrospective at the Hungarian National Gallery for the distinctive, solitary Hungarian master (1901-1966).

Shadowless: The Art of Gyula Czimra

Marianna Kolozsvary

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£50

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Less well known than her brother (Marcel), she was also a Dadaist. This accompanies a retrospective in Zurich.

Suzanne Duchamp: Retrospective

Talia Kwartler

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£48

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An illustrated study of the role that Kiefer's studios have played in his work.

Anselm Kiefer: Studios

Daniele Cohn

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£65

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What happened to Matisse's art when he spent the winter in Morocco in 1912.

Matisse in Morocco: A Journey of Light and Color

Jeff Koehler

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£22

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Robin Bynoe began collecting Carel Weight's art in 1982, which precipitated a great friendship that was to span the next fifteen years. Acclaimed for his portraits, and his sometimes siniste... read more

The Worlds of Carel Weight: A Memoir of a Friendship ...

Robin Bynoe

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£15.00

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An authoritative biography of the great chatelaine of Charleston.

Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical ...

Wendy Hitchmough

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The first book on Hepworth's stringed sculptures, paintings and drawings. Smartly produced without a dustjacket, just clean-cut boards, for an exhibition at Piano Nobile.

Barbara Hepworth: Strings

Stephen Feeke

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£68.00

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From MoMA, on a recently found portfolio of her naturalistic early botanical work from 1919-20.

Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers

Jodi Hauptman

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£45.00

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Accompanying the exhibition in Paris at the Fondation Louis Vuiitton, this is the most substantial retrospective of the artist yet.

David Hockney

Norman Rosenthal

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£45.00

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16 years of conversations between the artistic director of the Serpentine and the grand fumador of Bradford.

The Hockney Interviews

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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£24.99

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The outstanding biography of the revered artist, film maker, gardener, diarist, gay rights campaigner and general scourge of bigotry was first published in 1991. This illustrated new edition... read more

Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography

Tony Peake

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£30.00

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To accompany the June-Oct exhibition at the RA.

Kiefer/Van Gogh

Simon Schama

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£35.00

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The Swiss-French painter was also a prolific illustrator, reviving the art of the woodcut in the late C19th. Some 250 of his woodcuts for books and periodicals are included in this handsome ... read more

L’Age du Papier: Felix Vallotton illustrateur ...

Katia Poletti

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Wyndham Lewis, Henri Gaudier et al who burst onto the art scene in the early C20th - and what happened to them. Many illustrations. By the author of Paul Nash: Designer and Illustrator.

‘Our Little Gang’: The Lives of the Vorticists ...

James King

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A dual-biography that shows the similarities between the passionate siblings as well as their differing ways of being in the world. Mackrell, the well-known dance critic, is also the author ... read more

Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Life and Loves of Gwen and Augustu ...

Judith Mackrell

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The title sweeps together the disparate but connected groups of artists (writers, photographers, poets, composers and architects as well as painters) working in Sussex in the first half of t... read more

Sussex Modernism

Hope Wolf

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A vivid reimagining of the tangled lattice of Picasso's love life, from the perspective of women determined to make sense of the past.

Picasso’s Lovers

Jeanne Mackin

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£10.99

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Following the success of Tiepolo Blue (2022), Cahill's new novel takes us deeper still into the international contemporary art world and its fragile, clashing egos.

The Violet Hour

James Cahill

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Another in Thames & Hudson's charming quarter-bound series; others include Beardsley, Ravilious, Constable's skies, etc. Well illustrated.

Vanessa Bell: Modern Living

Rosalind McKever

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£16.99

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Accompanies the Tate exhibition on this British surrealist painter, writer and occultist.

Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds

Katy Norris

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£40.00

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The first comprehensive catalogue of Freud's oil paintings covers over 500 works, almost all of which are reproduced in colour, with excellent notes. 4 vols in a slipcase.

Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings ...

Catherine Lampert

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£500.00

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The sequel to Bacon in Moscow is not, regrettably, Sausages in St Petersburg, but something perhaps just as barmy... another jaunty tale from the art dealer's adventures beyond the Iron Curt... read more

Gilbert & George and the Communists

James Birch

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£19.99

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Figure studies, architectural drawings, landscapes... all charting, in various styles, his development towards geometric abstraction. There's also a new Penguin Classics edition of his wonde... read more

Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks

Wassily Kandinsky

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Attractive catalogue to accompany the exhibition at the NPG looks at eighty examples, highlighting the bohemian circles Munch moved in.

Edvard Munch Portraits

Alison Smith

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On the eve of WWII, HB fled Germany for California; later he became an art-dealer in Paris. His own collection is astounding, and the subject of an important international travelling exhibi... read more

Picasso, Klee, Matisse, Giacometti: The Eye of Collector-Dealer Heinz ...

Olivier Berggruen

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Essays on how art should/does engage in politics, and how the changing forms of our visual culture respond to capitalism. .

Those Passions: On Art and Politics

T. J. Clark

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Shows how the six women most associated with Picasso were far from passive or submissive 'muses' but were highly independent and talented in their own right.

Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women who Loved Picasso ...

Sue Roe

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