74296 LINES OF DISCOVERY: 225 Years of American Drawings by Stephen Wicks


Comprises a major new thematic and chronological catalogue survey of 200 examples in graphite, charcoal, monotype and pastel by leading American artists. Nearly 100 are grouped into five chapters, and accompanied by extended catalogue entries written by top experts. A further 129 works are presented as colour and mono comparative illustrations, interspersed amongst the images of the key works. A full provenance, exhibition history and bibliographic reference is included for each drawing, as well as an artists’ index. Perhaps the most famous artist profiled in this superb book is Mary Cassatt, who gained an enduring reputation as an international modern painter through her early association with the Impressionist group in France. Included are images by John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West that date from the earliest years of American nationhood, pieces by Oscar Bluemner and John Sloan which herald the advent of modernism, compositions by Hans Hofmann and Yasuo Kuniyoshi that use social realism, surrealism and abstraction, and works by the likes of Nancy Grossman and Jack Beal that explore the strength and beauty of the human form, while James Valerio and Andrew N. Wyeth document the changing faces of the natural world. 252 pages 28cm x 23cm packed with illustrations in b/w and colour, general texts on American drawings, list of individual artists, and explanatory essays.


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Cuckfield to Breton Churchyard to The Carosse Poland, and the eye-catching nature of his art, is lavishly illustrated in 223 pages 29cm x 25cm which include over 180 illus, 125 in colour. List of works in public collections. £30 NOW £15


72617 LIFE - THE CLASSIC COLLECTION by LIFE Magazine


Life magazine photographers are famous the world over for capturing the dramatic moment that defines a nation, an event, a personality. This stunning collection of big reproductions includes 25 loose prints that can be detached, mounted and framed. They include the legendary Robert Capa’s image of soldiers swimming ashore on Omaha Beach on D-Day, Dmitri Kessel’s beautiful study of the Eiffel Tower in mist and Hank Walker’s profile shot of John and Robert Kennedy conferring in the White House. Dietrich covers her face with a wall of hair, Marilyn gives the viewer her delectable smile. Martin Luther King marches for freedom, Orson Welles steps out of a car. 144 large pages, photos on every page, some in colour. $29.95 NOW £12.50


72630 RENOIR AT THE THEATRE: Looking at La Loge edited by Ernst Vegelin van


Claerbergen and Barnaby Wright Published by the Courtauld Gallery and with essays by John House, Aileen Ribeiro and Nancy Ireson, this is a first edition exhibition catalogue. Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s La Loge (the Theatre Box) is one of the iconic paintings of Impressionism. Its depiction of a fashionably dressed couple in an elegant theatre box, the husband leaning back and looking through eyeglasses, the woman’s penetrating gaze fixing our stare. Looks at Paris’s theatres and fashion industry and the influence of satire and the popular press. Lavishly illus. 128 large pages in softback. ONLY £4


73104 TURKS: A Journey of 1000 Years, 600-1600 by Filiz Cagman, Nazan Olcer and


David J. Roxburgh The Royal Academy “Turks” exhibition in 2005 took many art- lovers by surprise, with its rich displays of painting, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, manuscripts and


armour. This huge and sumptuous book accompanying the exhibition opens up the country’s impressive heritage. When the Timurid and Turkmen dynasties replaced the Mongols, they developed a new level of detail in manuscript work and calligraphy. Elaborate war masks, a helmet, mail-coat and other armour from Anatolia and Uzbekistan reflect the centrality of warfare. The art of the Ottoman court is richly jewelled, although Islamic doctrine frowned on ostentation, and the architectural revolution of Suleyman I the Magnificent was dominated by the master-builder Sinan, whose mosques embodied practicality, dignity and grandeur. 392pp, 370 beautiful colour reproductions. Royal Academy of Arts first edition, 2005. £50 NOW £26


73115 A MORE BEAUTIFUL CITY: Robert


Hooke and the Rebuilding of London by Michael Cooper


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Robert Hooke was London’s City Surveyor when fire ravaged the city in 1666. He lived at Gresham College, home to the Royal Society, and his work as a lecturer and scientist brought him into contact with the great names of the era: Wren, Pepys, Newton and Boyle. This beautifully produced book, however, deals with Hooke’s life and his work as an architect, a profession in which he enjoyed a close relationship with Sir Christopher Wren, the leading architect of the day. As Professor of Geometry at Gresham Hooke he became a key scientific figure. Hooke’s design for Bedlam Hospital was highly acclaimed and other successes were the Physicians’ College and the Newgate Gateway. Hooke’s private life centres on his love for his young niece Grace. 271pp, reproductions. £20 NOW £7.50


ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74 73168 PRE-RAPHAELITES


by Michael Robinson In 1848, disillusioned with the prevailing academic style and teaching, a group of young students determined to reform art. So Sir John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel


Rossetti and William Holman Hunt founded the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood. They were influenced by John Ruskin and his challenge to ‘go to nature’. Inspired by medieval art and culture, and driven by a belief in the spirituality of their work, the group used brilliant colours with meticulous detailing and produced strikingly original and beautiful pictures. Showcases a stunning collection of both famous and lesser-known paintings from one of the most interesting and important British art movements of the 19th century, this superb volume explores works by Millais, Rossetti, Hunt and their wider circle. 384 softback pages. £9.99 NOW £5


73108 BERENICE ABBOTT: PHOTOGRAPHER by George Sullivan


Berenice Abbott cut her hair short the day after leaving school and followed a Bohemian life in Greenwich Village. The year was 1917 and the Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp had just declared the Village to be an “Independent Republic”. Encouraging Berenice to become a sculptor, Duchamp introduced her to the Surrealist photographer Man Ray, and she went as Ray’s assistant to Paris in 1921. Soon she was photographing famous people such as Peggy Guggenheim, André Gide, Djuna Barnes and James Joyce. A key influence was Eugene Atget and his studies of French streets, which inspired Abbott to record the streets of New York on her return. One of the most famous is “Night View” taken from the observation deck of the Empire State Building, and other iconic images feature self-service Automats, a kosher chicken market, the canyon-like Exchange Place, the Flatiron Building, the now-demolished Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan Bridge, and office workers on Fifth Avenue. 170pp, photos.


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73285 LEE MILLER AND ROLAND PENROSE: The Green Memories of Desire by Katherine Slusher


It is not generally known that Miller and Penrose were both artists in their own right and had a relationship that spanned 40 years. This richly illustrated joint biography tells the story of how a fashion model turned photographer and an English Quaker turned art collector and surrealist painter influenced modern art with their vision and passion, and created a life together that was in itself a work of art. Roland Penrose met Lee Miller’s lips a year before he met the rest of her - in a painting by Man Ray. Together they forged a life joined by a common cause - surrealism. They had a son, Antony, and created a home in the Sussex countryside that drew people from all over the world, among them the artists Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso. In his final art piece, aptly entitled The Last One, he pictured Lee’s lips one more time. He died on her birthday. 96 softback pages 27.5cm x 19cm full of plates in colour and b/w. £9.99 NOW £5


73867 GAUGUIN: Tahiti by George T. M. Shackelford and Claire Frèches-Thory


In order to support a major Gauguin exhibition by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, museums and collections throughout the world agreed to lend their prized works to what was to become a historic project. For example, 24 exceptional chefs d’oeuvres were loaned by the Musée d’Orsay, including some of the artist’s best-known paintings and sculpture, as well as the manuscript Noa Noa, never before shown outside France. For the first time since 1898, Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? his greatest work - and ‘testament’ as he called it - can be viewed in this superb catalogue, together with eight paintings that the artist made to accompany it. There are also 125 other works, encompassing paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and manuscripts, as well as a superb selection of Oceanic and Polynesian objects. This unique volume traces the art Gauguin produced as early as the late 1880s in Brittany, the paintings and carvings he made while he was living in Tahiti, the paintings, sculpture and prints that he executed during his return to France and the remarkable works he completed during the last eight years of his life, in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands, where he died a little more than a century ago. 370 paperback pages 28cm x 24cm very lavishly illustrated in dazzling colour and b/w, chronology of Gauguin’s life. $40 NOW £12.50


72508 NICHOLAS HILLIARD by Karen Hearn


As the leading Elizabethan miniaturist, Hilliard painted many notable characters of the era, including the Queen’s favourites: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Christopher Hatton, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the ill-fated and rebellious Earl of Essex. Above all, Hilliard created several powerful portraits of Queen Elizabeth herself. The “Phoenix” portrait reproduced here shows a confident woman in her early forties who looks straight ahead. By contrast, the locket of 1600, a year before she died, shows an idealised portrait with flowing golden hair, symbolic of her continuing vitality but also designed to mislead. Other royal sitters include Elizabeth’s successor James VI and her rival Mary Queen of Scots, while a portrait of Henry VIII is copied from Holbein’s celebrated study. Costumes indicate status and wealth, but Hilliard’s images also convey personality. Hilliard’s importance rests partly on a treatise about his working methods, covering both theory and practice and including some personal biography. Small format, 93pp, 30 colour reproductions.


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70735 MAGICAL CHORUS by Solomon Volkov Subtitled A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn, this ground-breaking book looks closely at the relationships of major artists with Lenin and Stalin, Khrushchev and Gorbachev, and the effect of their symbiosis on the nation’s culture. Avant-garde artists, including Kandinsky and Chagall, started leaving Russia, but Goncharova and her circle struggled on. The author discusses the position of artists such as Shostakovich, Eisenstein, Akhmatova and Prokofiev, Diaghilev, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov and Brodsky under new regimes. 333 roughcut pages, photos. £30 NOW £4


71024 THE ART DETECTIVE by Philip Mould Subtitled ‘Fakes, Frauds and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures’. Each chapter revolves around a particular painting and the people who helped unmask its identity. A Norman Rockwell faked by an amateur artist from Vermont trapped in a messy divorce; a Rembrandt self portrait disguised by so many layers of over painting that it was unrecognisable; a long-lost Gainsborough that Mould spotted misidentified at an Auction in LA. Memoir, art history and brilliant yarn. Colour and b/w photos. 261pp. $26.95 NOW £5.50


73578 THE STORY OF BROADCASTING HOUSE


by Mark Hines


From its commanding position at the head of Regent Street, Broadcasting House is a London landmark, stylistically a fusion of Art Deco with the surrounding 18th century architecture. A major refurbishment and digitalisation project was completed in 2006, making it a building with the technology to take radio broadcasting well into the 21st century. Designed in the early 30s by the architect Lieutenant Colonel George Val Myer it was one of the first buildings in the world dedicated to radio. This beautiful book features outstanding photography by Tim Crocker to complement the archival photos that record the building’s 80-year history. Every phase of construction was meticulously photographed, and we can also see the original plans together with studies of Eric Gill’s sculpture “Prospero and Ariel”. A final photo gallery includes wonderful Art Deco corridors and lifts, not to mention a striking shot of hundreds of celebrities and coloured electricity cables. 192pp, colour photos. £29.95 NOW £10


63013 FIRST SEEN: Portraits of the World’s


Peoples 1840-1880 by Kathleen Stewart Howe


These photos from the Wilson Centre for Photography offer a map of the human world in the mid-19th century. This extraordinary collection comprises the first known photographs of peoples and races, of all classes, ranks and castes, ethnic and tribal types - the criminal, the ill, the picturesque - on nearly every continent. They are represented at work, in their environments, in their homes and in their celebrations. Organised into larger thematic groups, they reveal the common threads of human societies and human curiosity. Here are a daguerreotype of a Borneo tribesman, and the first images of the people of Madagascar and the ordinary people of Egypt. Here are a Zulu Shaman, a Fakir from Hyderabad and a Holy Man, all of them to our eyes rather terrifying. 206 large pages, 161 colour plates. £35 NOW £9


73869 DEGAS - THE LATE WORK by Carol Armstrong and Martin Schwander


Degas is an artist who miraculously manages to capture the romance of the ballet or the intimacy of the boudoir while showing us that these are real flesh and blood people. At the end of his life Degas’s reputation was secure and he was able to engage in experimentation with freer outlines and superbly impressionistic effects, and the later work is showcased here with high-quality reproductions and a fascinating art-historical text by a panel of experts. The series of monotypes entitled “Paysage” shows the countryside bathed in mysterious shadows and unexpected light effects, while the late pastel drawings demonstrate an intensified preoccupation with the theme après le bain. Degas’s women preparing for the day ahead, often tying up their hair, are masterpieces of unaffected female beauty. The ballerinas of the late period are intensely physical, usually straining in effortful poses. The small sculptures of the period also include bronze horses in motion, sometimes at an impressive gallop. In this comprehensive study, photos of Degas with his family and friends are interspersed with shots of the celebrated artist on public occasions. 268pp, 232 colour reproductions, archive photos, detailed chronology. £45 NOW £22.50


70879 CEZANNE TO PICASSO: Ambroise


Vollard Patron of the Avant-Garde edited by Rebecca Rabinow


This monumental volume was created to accompany an exhibition which celebrated the achievements of Ambroise Vollard, the pioneering Parisian art dealer of the late 19th century. Over his long life (1866-1939), Vollard organised exhibitions for scores of artists including Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso and Matisse, promoted the likes of Degas and included amongst his clients the greatest collectors of the era, including Gertrude Stein, Ivan Morozov and Denys Cochin. Importantly, he also encouraged artists to expand into prints and artists’ books, publishing colourful print albums and collector’s books. 464 9½”×12½” pages, 529 illus, 260 in colour. 22 essays. Chronology, list of exhibits. Apologies if stickered. £40 NOW £11


74057 HOCKNEY: A Rake’s Progress by Christopher Simon Sykes


David Hockney’s versatility is legendary, and like Picasso he has moved through half a dozen strikingly different styles. His most celebrated portrait, “Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy”, with its slightly dreamlike realism, contrasts strongly with the abstracts of his student years, while the meticulous detail of his etchings of Grimm’s Fairy Tales is a world away from the huge and colourful digitised prints recently seen at the Royal Academy show “A Bigger Picture”. Openly gay from


74294 KING’S DRAWINGS: From the Musée du Louvre by Catherine Loisel


and Varena Forcione Produced to accompany the eponymous exhibition which ran from 14th October 2006 to 28th January 2007 at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, which showcased some of the most


important items of the 135,000 drawings in the Louvre’s “Cabinet des dessins”, the world’s oldest and largest collection of Old Master drawings. Assembled mainly by Kings Louis XIV, XV and XVI, the first ever exhibition of the King’s Drawings was when the Louvre opened to astonished crowds in 1793, four years after the Revolution started. The Cabinet du Roi came about by a convergence of circumstances encouraged by Louis XIV, the most important being the 1671 sale, at the extremely attractive price of 222,000 livres, of the fabulous hoard of drawings owned by Paris-based German banker Everhard Jabach, who was in urgent need of funds. Many of the 103 examples showcased in the book were actually preliminary drawings for what turned out to be major works or quite clearly demonstrate that the artist was getting the feel for a masterpiece to come. Artists featured include Dürer, Raphael, Watteau, Rembrandt, Bruegel, Bosch, Rubens, van Dyck, Vasari and Poussin, and for each there is a reproduction of the work, along with a detailed description, history and points of interest, as well as full details of medium and size. Bibliographical references and a full history of the Cabinet and much detail


concerning those who collected and provided works for it. 160pp, 9"×11¼”, colour. High Museum of Art 2006 first edition.


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an early age, Hockney focused on gay themes from the beginning of his career, and his stay in California propelled him towards swimming pools as a subject. After America he lived in Paris but was increasingly drawn into the swinging London sixties scene through his volatile friendship with fashion designers Ossie Clark and his partner Celia Birtwistle. Hockney was in love with Celia but during these years he set up house with the gay love of his life, Peter Schlesinger. Hockney’s eclecticism is the key to his development, and the recent landscape work based in his Yorkshire roots has won a new audience. Household names and complete unknowns crowd the pages of this fascinating biography. 363pp, colour and b/w reproductions. £25 NOW £10


73623 KANDINSKY WATERCOLOURS: Volume One


by Vivienne Endicott Barnett


This Catalogue Raisonné, Premier Volume covers the years 1900-1921 and is a companion to the Oil Paintings Volume Two 1916-1944 code 73624. After an introduction in French, for each piece the provenance, history of exhibitions and bibliographical references are given in English, French and German, whether it is signed or dated, where it can be seen now and its history. In this first volume of watercolours, Kandinsky’s temperas, gouaches and watercolours from the Munich years and the Russian period are definitively catalogued and discussed in chronological order, together with many previously unknown pictures published for the first time. His bold abstractions and little-known watercolours painted in Russia from 1915-21 are fully documented in this reference for more than 500 artworks with original essays. Much in colour, 556pp measuring 30 x 27cm, this is a Philip Wilson Publishers first edition March 1992.


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OF THE OIL PAINTINGS: Volume Two 1916-1944


by Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin Beginning with an Addendum to Volume One code 73623, volume two of the Catalogue Raisonné of Kandinsky’s oil paintings span the years 1916 until his death in 1944. It includes over 575 entries, 536 of which are entered by Kandinsky in his own Handlist. For every entry there is his title in German, English and French, date, whether signed and dated, alternative titles, location and references. The catalogue is arranged chronologically and the authors have relied on the artist’s Handlist where in all instances he gave the year when the work was accomplished and in many the actual month. Lady in a Gold Dress, striking abstracts like Red Spot II and On White II, geometric patterns in bold colours, his imagination and uniqueness is showcased in these beautifully rendered oils on cardboard, canvas or in mixed media or on wood panels. 560 pages measuring 30 x 27cm and a companion volume to volume one code 73623. Philip Wilson Publishers first edition, February 1984.


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73740 KANDINSKY: Volumes One and Two Buy both first editions and make more savings.


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72410 DEGAS by Bernd Growe In terms of both theme and technique, the key to understanding the early work of Edgar Degas (1834- 1917) is classical painting. Degas’s work, reflecting an extremely personal and psychological perspective, emphasizes the scenic or concentrates on the detail. He primarily sought his motifs at the race track or circus, in bedrooms, or in ballet salons, and dancers always remained his favourite theme. Features a detailed chronological summary of the artist’s life and work,


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