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