Auguste and Gausserand met at a pottery school in Montpellier in 1948. For the next seventy years they would share studios in small towns in the south of France, amongst a community of post-... read more
Haussmann eat your heart out... these elegant watercolours and ink drawings are a boulevardier's delight. Accompanied by a text by a French ironmaster.
Signac was one of the original organizers of the Salon des Independents in 1884 and was its president for nearly 30 years. Impressionists, Fauves, Symbolists, Nabis - like the Hendersons, ... read more
A deft and witty excursion to Paris for coffee with Sartre, de Beauvoir et alia by Sarah Bakewell; a winter and spring on the shores of Lake Baikal with only a portable library and ice - and... read more