Figurative Painting

Rare & Collectible In 2014, the contemporary painter George Shaw (b. 1966) began a two-year post as associate artist in the National Gallery, London. This book documents his experiences there, as well as the work he produced in response to the Gallery’s collection. Shaw...

Rare & Collectible Born in Berlin in 1931 to Jewish parents, the eight-year-old Auerbach was sent to England in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime. His parents stayed behind and died in a concentration camp in 1943. The art historian and curator Catherine Lampert...

This catalogue of Renoir's first monographic exhibition in Hungary (2023-2024) presenting almost seventy works, this book explores an oeuvre spanning six decades, from the beginnings through the major impressionist works to the last masterpiece, The Bathers, completed shortly before his death. Portraits, genre paintings, and...

Rare & Collectible This rarity from almost thirty years ago was self-published, without an ISBN, by David Hockney Studio. These photographic works pointed to a radically new synthesis in David Hockney's thought and activity as and photographer at the time of publication. The photographs...

Modernists & Mavericks presents a masterfully narrated account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs and works of art.The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s is the...

The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around the world. Starting in Toronto, a group of young modern artists, including Tom Thomson and Lawren S. Harris, and Emily Carr in British Columbia, desired...

This book is devoted to the complex relationship between Russian art and the East—be it the Russian East or the Far East—with special focus on the radical artists who shaped the development of modern art a century ago. The rituals of Siberian shamans, the...

For two centuries, the city-republic of Siena was home to a brilliant succession of painters who created some of the greatest masterpieces of all time; an imagery unmatched in colouristic intensity and spatial experimentation. This overview, now revised and updated, is an essential introduction...

The painter and collagist Wilfred Avery (1926-2016) tackled just two subjects in his career: landscape and the male body. A sixty-year investigation into both developed out of his fascination with the unconscious mind as well as an exploration (and acceptance) of his own sexuality....

Published in conjunction with the El Greco exhibition at Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris. For a pocket size book, this really punches above it's weight! From the hardcover with rounded corners to the high quality reproductions presented through the use of multiple fold-out...

William Vaughan puts Gainsborough's work into the context of contemporaneous social and political developments in Britain, and in particular the celebration of original genius in a time of burgeoning entrepreneurial commercialism. Vaughan explores Gainsborough's life and work - his childhood in Suffolk; his 'apprenticeship' in...

The work of Bulgarian painter Oda Jaune (b.1979) focuses on the biomorphic, the collaged, the abnormal, which ensure that her work continually evades the viewers grasp. Her work plays with the themes of ambivalence, attraction and withdrawal. Internal organs and emotional states blend together...

Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of the second half of the twentieth century and is still at the forefront of painting today. His painting September is a response to the bombing of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001,...

Lucas Cranach the Elder created around 500 works during his lifetime. With his portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchton and as court painter to Frederick the Wise, he became one of the most sought-after painters of the Reformation. At the same time, Cranach...

From the human truths, brutalist architecture and packed tube trains of 1970s London to the vineyards, Renaissance châteaux and riotous festivals of Gascon France, Michael Fell (1939 – 2023) chronicled the world he saw. His exuberant paintings and prints explore the sadnesses, humour and...

This book paints the story of a Western artist’s discovery of authentic Mexico, encapsulating a journey away from narrow observations of the country’s stereotypes - black and white films, cactus’, cartels, and the jumping bean - towards a greater understanding of its significance in...

American artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) is a master of creating art that is at once playful and profound. Ruscha’s inimitable work frequently involves the setting of a single word or phrase against a stained background or monumental landscape. His paintings, prints, drawings, photographs,...

Since about 2000, Ilya Kabakov has been slowly turning away from the installation pieces for which he is best known to return to his first medium, painting, with which he addresses personal experiences from the recent past as well as his childhood in Stalin's...

Fighting History is the first book to engage with the story of British history painting and its survival into contemporary practice today. Beautifully illustrated with works from the Tate collection, as well as a number of paintings from other institutions and from practicing artists,...

This introduction to El Greco (1541-1614) was published to coincide with the El Greco exhibition at the National Gallery, London (11th February - 23rd May, 2004). The book follows the artist from his native island to Venice, Rome, Madrid, and then Toledo, the ecclesiastical...