A beguiling approach to the relationship of artists to the sea, looking in detail at single works by ten artists: from Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach and Paul Nash's Winter Sea, via Alfred Wa... read more
Carves out a space in modern British art history for Helen Sutherland, Myfanwy Piper and a host of lesser known female collectors, gallerists and friends.
Definitive biography of this determinedly figurative painter whose 20th century life, through suffrage to feminism, won her a major retrospective at the Whitney, New York in 1974.
A memoir by the artist who had a decade-long relationship with Lucian Freud; full of insights, sometimes discomfortingly so. CP has a fine, clear voice - Freud's gestures and movements as ... read more
She was B-J's muse for the last 25 years of his life, but, unlike most of the other Pre-Raphaelite women, she survived into a self-determining life and was friendly with Wilde, Einstein, Asq... read more
So many of K-S's photographs have been misattributed to Cecil Beaton that she has been neglected. She was admired by Man Ray and Paul Nash; her circle included Cocteau, Connolly and Fonteyn.
AdeC is a superb social historian and here she has found a subject supremely worthy of her skill. Her cast here comprises Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, Louis Arago... read more
'Please bring no clothes: we live in a state of utmost simplicity': so wrote Virginia Woolf to T.S. Eliot in 1920. Porter looks at the Bloomsbury group through their clothes - their creativi... read more
Edie's older sister attempts to understand how her younger sibling progressed from an isolated, privileged Californian childhood to become Warhol's muse.
Interwar Cairo was raucous and cosmopolitan, its burgeoning counterculture pioneered by women - singers, dancers and actresses.
Publication of this book has been delayed under May 6th 202... read more
From the author of Self-Portrait, her book about Lucian Freud, comes a collection of remarkable, imagined letters with Gwen John, an artist with whom Paul has always felt a close connection.
This early C19th disabled artist excelled as a miniaturist, having taught herself how to paint by holding a brush in her teeth. Contracted to a travelling showman at the age of thirteen as a... read more
Catalogue of the recent exhibition of her ravishing pictures at the Redfern Gallery, where her work can be seen to shift from precise line drawing to abstraction and colour, culminating in l... read more