Figurative Painting

Ortrud Westheider & Michael Philipp  Hardcover | 22.2 x 2.3 x 27.9 cm | 216 pp Hirmer | 2011 | 9783777450018 Images of an Era focuses on Richter’s paintings of the 1960s that are based on photographical source images. The paintings and photographs, which were predominantly taken...

John Elderfield Hardcover | 15.5 x 1 x 21.7 cm | 64 pp Thames & Hudson | 1996 | 9780500550281 In 1913, outraged by Matisse's painterly violations of the female body, students of the Art Institute of Chicago found him guilty of "artistic murder"...

Hardcover | 30.48 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 180 pp Kerber | 2012 | 9783866786523 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...

Stefano Zuffi Hardcover | 26.16 x 2.51 x 32.69 cm | 224 pp Ludion | 2019 | 9789491819995 Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is considered one of the greatest painters of all times. Often described as the archetype of the homo universalis, he was a...

Edited by Graham Badert Softcover | 15.4 x 1.22 x 23 cm | 202 pp | b&w illustrations MIT Press | 2009 | 9780262512312 The most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces. Roy...

Patricia Lee Softcover | 14.94 x 0.89 x 21.11 cm | 104 pp Afterall | 2016 | 9781846381638 The One Work series is a library of small books, each title focusing on a single artwork that has significantly shaped the way we understand art...

Till-Holger Borchert Hardcover | 26 x 3.2 x 32.7 cm | 320 pp Verlag Bernd Detsch | 2021 | 9783940602381 Text in German with English translation booklet Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) is one of the most famous painters in the history of Netherlandish painting,...

Martin Kemp & Fabio Scaletti  Hardcover | 25 x 4.17 x 33.5 cm | 304 pp Scripta Maneant | 2019 | 9788895847450 Text in English and French Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, this volume represents an important tool for...

Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm | 176 pp JRP Ringier | 2010 | 9783037641125 Since the 1990s, German painter Stefan à Wengen (b. 1964) has worked on large series of works that investigate questions of cultural codes and memory. Issues such as...

Jorella Andrews & Patrick Vale  Hardcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2015 | 9781780674780 Paul Cézanne challenged convention and pioneered new possibilities in painting. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint aspects of everyday life...

George Roddam & Slawa Harasymowicz Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.06 x 24.13 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2014 | 9781780671895 Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists – all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of...

William Kentridge & Amiee Ng Hardcover | 17.78 x 0.64 x 22.86 cm | 72 pp | 38 colour illustrations D Giles | 2021 | 9781911282709 The White Horse (1819) by John Constable (1776–1837) is the first of the series of the "six-footers," monumental landscapes of...

Wayne Frantis Softcover | 16.19 x 1.91 x 21.91 cm | 352 pp Phaidon | 2015 | 9780714868790 In this monograph, from Phaidon's Art and Ideas series, Wayne Franits examines the work of Vermeer within the framework of his times, one of the most intellectually creative...

Carol Jacobi Softcover | 16.83 x 0.64 x 20.96 cm | 80 pp Tate Publishing | 2017 | 9781849765299  This refreshingly accessible introduction to the lives and work of some of the best-known and best-loved impressionists features artworks by Degas, Monet, Pissarro and Morisot among...

James H. Rubin Hardcover | 13 x 19.5 cm | 120 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775749138 The incomparable play of light and colour in Paul Cezanne’s work was the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism. From the start he went...

Hardcover | 25 x 3 x 31 cm | 264 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791368795 Featuring major works from Caravaggio and his circle and the Italian Baroque period, this lavishly illustrated book looks at Rome as the centre of European culture in the...

Barbara Ehrlich White Hardcover | 17.78 x 4.06 x 24.89 cm | 432 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500239575  The joy that permeates Renoir’s paintings was created by a complicated person. Even close friends and family members were often baffled by the multi-faceted...

Ketil Bjørnstad Softcover | 13.02 x 2.86 x 20 cm | 416 pp Arcadia Books | 2005 | 9781900850940 A fascinating literary construction of the life of one of the world's most popular 19th century painters based on Munch's own diaries, notes and letters. His...

Christopher Finch Hardcover | 18.5 x 3.5 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Prestel | 2010 | 9783791336770  For decades Chick Close's (1940-2021) larger-than-life and unflinchingly honest paintings of friends and family, and self-portraits have won admiration from a wide audience. Having reinvented portraiture...

Hardcover | 24.13 x 2.01 x 30.18 cm | 168 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791378411  The Berlin painter Christopher Lehmpfuhl (b. 1972) has been occupied with the urban transformation at Berlin's Schlossplatz for over a decade. His 126 portraits of this historic Mitte...