Three decades of the Slovak artist's work, from the 1960s to the 1980s: abstract sculptures in cast plaster, aluminium, wood and stone that use organic forms to explore contrasts - fragile a... 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
"The story of C20th Britain, viewed through the lens of the artists' lives": this is less art history and more an artists' history. A wide-ranging, detailed, sympathetic account, with some p... read more
A paean to Blake, who will be 90 in December. And oh, how we wish him well! And celebrate it with this excellent sweep of his life and work, from earliest drawings to his recent biro sketche... read more
The work of Lucien Boucher, 37 of whose marvellous lithographs of Parisian shop fronts are reproduced here, along with an extended, illustrated essay by James Russell and Shaun Whiteside's t... read more
A beguiling approach to the relationship of artists to the sea, looking in detail at single works by ten artists: from Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach and Paul Nash's Winter Sea, via Alfred Wa... read more
Portraits, tapestries, sculpture, armour, manuscripts and objects from this artistically cosmopolitan court: Flemish weavers, German painters, Florentine sculptors... all in the service of d... 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
First volume of Freud's letters - irreverent, affectionate, scurrilous - reproduced in facsimile. Many illustrations and beautifully produced in dun cloth.