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
A glorious, large-format facsimile of Mabel Ashburton's album of watercolours of her five-month journey to the Far East. Her skill as a watercolourist is very considerable and her eye fresh;... read more
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
Artemisia Gentileschi's father was a friend of Caravaggio, and she his greatest successor. This is the first catalogue dedicated entirely to Gentileschi's astonishing work.
A fine book on the first woman artist of European standing, with special emphasis on her impact in England where she was the first female member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
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
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.
An illustrated monograph and first serious study of this pioneering artist (1889-1991) who blended surrealism with cubism and modernism and who is linked with Paul Nash, Paul Eluard, Roland ... read more
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
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.
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.
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
LCW's 1947 memoir of her life as a gallerist; at the Wertheim Gallery she showed a swathe of English Modernist artists - Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Cedri... read more
Looks at Jane's contribution too in this extraordinary personal and creative partnership. SFC's earlier book To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters was excellent.
A retrospective of Maier's extraordinary body of work, arranged thematically - self-portraits, the street, portraits, gestures, cinematography, children, etc.
Large format retrospective of Leibovitz's work. This was previously published in 2014, as a so-called 'Sumo' edition. Weighing in at 26kg, that vast book required Sumo-strength to lift it, a... read more
A collection of essays about this most extraordinary C17th woman, artist, traveller and naturalist; looks at her methods and materials, her journey to Suriname, her entomological studies, he... read more
The thoughtful work of the well-known American photographer who is fascinated with cabinets of curiosity and the idea of the Wunderkammer: a retrospective presentation of her idiosyncratic a... read more
Cooper (1916-1992) studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art and was beginning to make a name for herself when her career was interrupted by WW2. Other careers followed... Her work is ch... read more
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