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.
Based on the Atholl collection of South African art, this superbly produced volume explores themes of transformation and metamorphosis, resistance and affinity, highlighting the fragility of... read more
First edition, first printing of the seminal memoir by the father of British studio pottery, in fine condition with a near fine dust jacket. There is a tiny abrasion to the rear upper corner... read more
First edition, first printing in very good condition with a very good dust jacket. Hicks considers the works of twenty four artists including Bacon, Freud, Hodgkin and Rego; many illustratio... read more
First and only hardback edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket. Blue-green cloth boards, attractive endpapers decorated with Kent's bucolic designs, and many black and white illu... read more
Two volumes together in a slipcase: a novella and an album of 73 gouache drawings - not illustrations, nor even illustrative, but works in their own right, abstractly informed by the text an... read more
Essays, some illustrations, and an alluring index: in 'B' alone you'll find Charles Babbage, Pauline Baynes, burial chamber (neolithic), blue colour, brightness, Louise Bourgeois, boredom, b... read more
Harris' wondrously eclectic mind has previously produced Weatherland and Romantic Moderns. Here she weaves stories of the Sussex landscape of her youth, with threads of Blake, Milton, Consta... read more