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La collection courtauld ; le parti de l'impressionnisme

Karen Serres
- Paul Holberton
- 18 Février 2019
- 9781911300595
La Collection Courtauld. Le parti de l'impressionnisme accompagne l'exposition majeure du printemps 2019 à la Fondation Louis Vuitton à Paris qui mettra en lumière l'industriel et mécène anglais Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947), l'un des plus importants collectionneurs du XXe siècle. Le catalogue et l'exposition présenteront son extraordinaire collection d'art impressionniste, qui n'a pas été vue à Paris depuis plus de soixante ans.
Courtauld constitua l'une des plus importantes collections d'art impressionniste au monde. Au cours des années 1920, il rassembla un ensemble exceptionnel de tableaux de tous les plus importants peintres impressionnistes, du chef d'oeuvre de jeunesse de Renoir, La Loge, à la dernière grande toile de Manet, l'emblématique Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère. Sa collection comprenait également Nevermore, le grand nu tahitien de Gauguin, et l'un des plus célèbres tableaux de Van Gogh, Autoportrait à l'oreille bandée, dont ce sera la première présentation à Paris depuis l'exposition organisée en 1955 au musée de l'Orangerie.
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Yoshida : three generations of Japanese printmaking

Monika Hinkel
- Paul Holberton
- 16 Août 2024
- 9781913645694
This catalogue, the fi rst of its kind in the UK, accompanying the 2024 exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, explores the important contribution to Japanese woodblock printing of the Yoshida family, from patriarch Hiroshi down to the current generation, led by Yoshida Ayomi. The story of the Yoshida family has been woven into the story of Japanese printmaking across two centuries, with each generation infusing this traditional art form with their sensitivity and imagination. Trained as a painter and watercolourist, Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) was a pioneer of the shin hanga artistic movement, which revived the traditional ukiyo-e prints ('pictures of the floating world') focusing on beautiful landscapes and landmarks and combined them with Western influences. His incredible corpus of woodblock prints, inspired by his travels across Japan but also in Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and North America, greatly contributed to the popularity of Japanese prints in the West. A rare instance in the early twentieth-century Japanese art world, the Yoshida legacy relies also on the important contribution of its women: first Fujio (1887-1987), Hiroshi's wife, a watercolourist, painter and printmaker, who was the first Japanese woman artist to gain international acclaim. Her style developed over time from naturalism towards greater stylization and organic abstraction, with her late still lifes strikingly balancing boldness and sensuality. Toshi (1911-1995) and Hodaka (1926-1995), Hiroshi and Fujio's sons, represent the second generation of this artistic dynasty; Toshi introduced post-war abstraction to the Japanese printmaking process, while Hodaka pushed these modernist instances further, achieving a unique personal style inspired by the sosaku hanga movement of artistic self-expression. His wife Chizuko (1924-2017) co-founded the first group of female printmakers in Japan, the Women's Print Association. Her works sapiently connect popular art movements like Abstract Expressionism with Japanese printmaking. The youngest member of the Yoshida family is Ayomi (b. 1958), daughter of Hodaka and Chizuko, whose practice bridges the gap between ukyio-e and contemporary art thanks also to the exploration of organic materials. She has been exhibited at major international institutions and will contribute an original installation to the Dulwich show.
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Roger Mayne : Youth

Jane Alison
- Paul Holberton
- 16 Août 2024
- 9781913645717
This beautiful catalogue reassesses the work of acclaimed British photographer Roger Mayne (1929-2014), famous for his arresting street scenes capturing Britain's post-war youth. It accompanies an exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, the first of its kind since 2017. Self-taught and influential in the advocacy of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about representing human life as he found it - most famously, in his street images of low-income communities in West London. Capturing children at play and the emerging phenomenon of the 'swaggering teenager', Mayne discovered in the young a defining energy that perfectly embodied both the scars and the vitality of post-war Britain. The exhibition of more than sixty photographs brings together a selection of Mayne's iconic London scenes with later, almost entirely unknown intimate portraits of his own family in rural Dorset. While these two strands have a different tenor, they share Mayne's radical empathy and his evident desire to create images with lasting impact, sensitivity and artistic integrity. With those pictured from the 1950s now in their senior years and a new generation of young people faced with myriad crises, Mayne's images of childhood, adolescence and family feel especially poignant and timely. The catalogue is richly illustrated and includes an original essay by Jane Alison and an interview with Mayne's daughter, Katkin Tremayne.
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Paris 1924 : sport, art and the body

Caroline Vout, Christopher Young
- Paul Holberton
- 14 Juin 2024
- 9781913645601
Ce catalogue apporte un nouveau regard sur les jeux Olympiques de Paris 1924, souvent
considérés comme les premiers Jeux internationaux. De leurs origines dans la Grèce
antique à leur transformation moderne en événement visuellement puissant à l'échelle
mondiale, les jeux Olympiques ont conservé leur place unique dans le monde du sport
et de la culture. Le livre, qui a été publié pour coïncider avec les jeux Olympiques de
Paris 2024, accompagne une grande exposition au Fitzwilliam Museum.
L'été 2024 verra le retour des jeux O lympiques à Paris un siècle après avoir été ville
organisatrice. Les Jeux de 1924 furent sans doute les premiers vrais Jeux internationaux,
les premiers à diffuser des émissions de radio en direct et les premiers à accueillir
un village olympique. Ils associèrent compétition d'art et événements sportifs, et
cédèrent trente-cinq médailles à la Grande Bretagne, notamment au sprinter de
Cambridge, Harold Abrahams, du renommé Chariots of Fire. Ce catalogue explore les
jeux Olympiques d'une perspective visuelle en enquêtant sur les tensions entre le urs
débuts classiques et leur représentation en 1924 et à travers l'ère moderne. Comment
les jeux Olympiques de 1924 ont ils été influencés par la culture visuelle de l'époque
Et comment, à leur tour, ont-ils influencé les arts? De moulage s en plâtre des statues
d'athlètes du Vème siècle avant J.C au cinéma holl ywoodien, et des portraits classiques
des protagonistes à l'art plus abstrait, ce catalogue rassemble peintures, sculptures, films,
photographies, posters, lettres, médailles et autre s souvenirs pour raconter l'histoire
d'une entreprise sportive qui a tout autant reflété qu influencé son temps. Questions de
genre, race et classe, ainsi qu'une exploration de la célébrité et de la place du spectateur,
montrent que le débat autour du sport était aussi complexe et capital dans le passé qu'il
ne l'est aujourd'hui.
Le catalogue d'exposition offre aux lecteurs l'opportunité d'explorer en détails
quelques uns des thèmes fondamentaux du spectacle. Il comprend des essais rédigés par
des spécialistes dans les domaines des lettres classiques, de l'histoire de l'art, de l'histoire
de France, de l'histoire du sport et de la médecine, chacun d'entre eux se concentrant
sur des thèmes essentiels de l'exposition et des protagonistes clés de l'histoire des Jeux.
Le large éventail d'art attirera les fans de classicisme, modernisme, cubisme, surréalisme
et futurisme, ainsi que d'Art déco, tandis que le sujet fera également écho aux amateurs
de sport et puisera dans l'enthousiasme de tout ce qui touche aux jeux Olympiques en
2024
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Peter Doig

Barnaby Wright
- Paul Holberton
- 2 Juin 2023
- 9781913645472
Accompanying a major exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig at The Courtauld, London, this publication will present an exciting new chapter in the career of one of the most celebrated and important painters working today and will include paintings and works on paper created since the artist's move from Trinidad to London in 2021. Doig (born Edinburgh, 1959) is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading artists. He secured his early reputation in the 1990s as a highly original figurative painter, producing large-scale, immersive landscape paintings that exist somewhere between actual places and the realms of the imagination. Layered into his paintings is a rich array of inspirations, such as scenes from films, album covers, and the art of the past. His works are often related to the places where he has lived and worked, including the UK, Canada and Trinidad. In 2021, Doig moved back to London where he has set up a new studio. This new studio has become the crucible for developing paintings started in Trinidad and New York and elsewhere, which are being worked up alongside completely fresh paintings, including a new London subject. The works produced for the exhibition at The Courtauld convey this particularly creative experience of transition, as Doig explores a rich variety of places, people, memories and ways of painting that have accompanied him to his new London studio. For Doig, printmaking is an integral part of his artistic life: his prints and his paintings often work in dialogue with one another. The catalogue will also showcase the artist's work as a draughtsman and printmaker by exploring a series of his new and recent drawing and prints, allowing readers to consider the full span of Doig's creative process. Doig has long admired the collection of The Courtauld Gallery.
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Henry Moore : Shadows on the wall

Penelope Curtis, Alexandra Gerstein, Ketty Gottardo, Charlotte de Mille, Laura Bruni
- Paul Holberton
- 16 Août 2024
- 9781913645663
Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986) was one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. This catalogue considers Moore's celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist's fascination with images of walls, during and immediately after World War II. It accompanies a focused exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery. After the destruction of his London studio early in World War II, Henry Moore began drawing figures sheltering from bomb raids in the London Underground. This catalogue and exhibition consider Moore's celebrated series as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist's fascination with images of walls, during and immediately after World War II. In the London Underground, where Moore drew these figures, the walls of these sheltered spaces came to absorb his attention in an altogether new way, becoming scene-setters, and key components of his drawings. This fascination with the bricks and the presence of walls, their texture, mass and volume, became especially important after his project to illustrate the wartime radio play The Rescue, based on Homer's Odyssey. Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall, a collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation, suggests for the first time that the walls in his drawings offer a new way to understand some of his most individual and monumental Post-War sculpture projects.
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The flowering desert: textiles from sindh

Nasreen Askari, Hasan Askari
- Paul Holberton
- 5 Avril 2024
- 9781913645571
This is a revised second edition of the best-selling book which incorporates new and additional material on the majority of the objects as well as an expanded glossary which will be of interest to both collector and scholar. The first edition was long-listed for the R.L. Shep Award by the Textile Society of America and chosen as one of the twelve best books of the year by the Crafts Council of the UK, both in 2020.
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Sur le motif - peindre en plein air en europe 1780-1870 - illustrations, couleur

Luijten/Morton/Munro
- Paul Holberton
- 22 Octobre 2020
- 9781911300830
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The art of the ring: highlights from the Griffin collection

Diana Scarisbrick
- Paul Holberton
- 19 Avril 2024
- 9781915401069
Covering as they do so many facets of civilization, rings tell us more about the hopes, aspirations, taste and sentiments of our ancestors than any other jewels surviving from the past. Moreover, the examples from the Griffin Collection, which have been assembled with taste and discernment over several decades, are not only rare but also of unusually high quality and intrinsic value. As well as being aesthetically attractive, these rings offer us a glimpse into the lives of their owners, as becomes evident in the vivid account offered by Diana Scarisbrick, one of the world's leading jewellery historians.
The collection illustrates the many uses of rings-as seals needed for business, in expressing religious belief, political loyalties and personal interests such as theatre going, hunting, classical art and astrology. Some demonstrate high rank and commemorate great historical occasions; others dating from the Middle Ages to Victorian England mark the major events of human existence - love, marriage and death - with rings bearing symbols and inscriptions. Often connected with historical figures, monarchs, notably Charles II and William IV or Isabella Zápolya, Queen of Hungary, but also with popes or artists, such as the Romantic poet Lord Byron. Each ring reveals personal information about the people who wore them and the societies in which they lived. An unusually high proportion of the rings have distinguished later provenance, coming from celebrated collectors: George Spencer 4th Duke of Marlborough, Constantine Ionides, Ernest Guilhou, Ralph Harari and Maurice de Rothschild.
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Sublime ideas : Giovanni Battista Piranesi

John Marciari
- Paul Holberton
- 7 Avril 2023
- 9781913645380
This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum of the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). It is the most important study of Piranesi's drawings to appear in more than a generation. In a letter written near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi explained to his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he could find no patrons there willing to support «the sublimity of my ideas.» He resided instead in Rome, where he became internationally famous working as a printmaker, designer, architect, archaeologist, theorist, dealer, and polemicist. While Piranesi's lasting fame is based above all on his etchings, he was also an intense, accomplished, and versatile draftsman, and much of his work was first developed in vigorous drawings. The Morgan Library & Museum holds what is arguably the largest and most important collection of these works, more than 100 drawings that include early architectural caprices, studies for prints, measured design drawings, sketches for a range of decorative objects, a variety of figural drawings, and views of Rome and Pompeii. These works form the core of the book, which will be published on the occasion of the Morgan's Spring 2023 exhibition of Piranesi drawings. More than merely an exhibition catalogue or a study of the Morgan's Piranesi holdings, however, this publication is a monograph that offers a complete survey of Piranesi's work as a draftsman. It includes discussion of Piranesi's drawings in public and private collections worldwide, with particular attention paid to the large surviving groups of drawings in New York, Berlin, Hamburg, and London; it also puts the large newly discovered cache of Piranesi material in Karlsruhe in context. The most comprehensive study of Piranesi's drawings to appear in more than a generation, the book includes more than 200 illustrations, and while focused on the drawings it offers insights on Piranesi's print publications, his church of Santa Maria del Priorato, and his work as a designer and dealer. In sum, the present work offers a new account of Piranesi's life and work, based on the evidence of his drawings.
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Hockney's eye : the art and technology of depiction

Martin Gayford
- Paul Holberton
- 15 Avril 2022
- 9781913645120
David Hockney is the best known and most widely admired painter in the world. This vibrant catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Heong Gallery in Cambridge, as well as the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. Throughout his long career, David Hockney has insistently explored diverse ways of depicting the visible world. He has scrutinised the methods of the old masters, and explored radical departures from their cherished assumptions The exhibition and accompanying book are the first to focus on this central theme in his art. «Western art» from the Renaissance until at least the late 19th century has been dominated by the depiction of nature. Was this to be accomplished by direct looking (called «eyeballing» by Hockney) or with the assistance of optical theory and devices, such as cameras? Hockney has experimented with the full range of existing strategies, overtly using perspective in some of his classic pictures and rigorously investigating optical aids for the imitation of nature, including the camera obscura and camera lucida. Yet he has come to reject the photograph as the definitive image of what we see. Along the way, he has identified a «camera culture'' in European painting from 1400, arguing very controversially that the supreme naturalism of painters like Jan van Eyck are the product of optical devices. His book, Secret Knowledge (2001), with its majestic panorama of paintings over the course of five centuries, claims that art historians have missed the central aspect of painters' practice. The «Hockney thesis» has been received more favourably outside the professional world of art history than in it. His own artistic practice has been in vigorous dialogue with his radical thesis, and he has progressively demonstrated new and dynamic ways of characterising the visual world without perspective and other conventional techniques. This quest results a series of joyous challenges to our ways of seeing in the major exhibition in Cambridge at the Fitzwilliam Museum and in the Heong Gallery (Downing College). It will look at the whole span of Hockney's varied career and at the nature of the optical devices he has tested. His vision will be explored in the setting of traditional masterpieces of naturalistic observation, and in the context of modern sciences and technologies of seeing. The first section of the book looks at his thrilling experiments in seeing and representing in broad historical and contemporary contexts. This is followed by discussions of pre-photographic devices for capturing the appearances of things by optical means. The third section includes essays on Hockney's experiments from the perspectives of neuroscience and computer vision. In short, it reveals in a new way the working of Hockney's unique eye.
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Edvard Munch : masterpieces from bergen

Collectif
- Paul Holberton
- 17 Juin 2022
- 9781913645274
This important publication accompanies a major exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, London, of paintings by Edvard Munch, one of the world's greatest modern artists. The exhibition and catalogue showcase 18 major works from the collection of KODE Art Museums in Bergen. The works span the most significant part of Munch's artistic development and have never before been shown as a group outside of Scandinavia
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Britain can make it

Diane Bilbey
- Paul Holberton
- 10 Mai 2019
- 9781911300540
This publication is a highly visual celebration of the massively popular, but now largely forgotten, Britain Can Make It exhibition. Organized by the Council of Industrial Design, it was held in empty ground-floor galleries of the Victoria & Albert Museum, from September to December 1946.
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The Gregory gift

Marie-Laure Buku Pongo
- Paul Holberton
- 17 Février 2023
- 9781913645434
Presenting for the first time the Alexis Gregory Gift to The Frick Collection, this exquisite publication provides illuminating insights into Gregory's magnificently eclectic collection, cataloging his fine and decorative works of art in detail. Twenty-eight works of art bequeathed to the Frick by Alexis Gregory range from Limoges enamels to Saint-Porchaire ware to pastels by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera. This remarkable gift has introduced new types of objects to the Frick: works in ivory and rhinoceros horn are the first of their kind to be held in the collection. Gregory's gift includes fifteen Limoges enamels, one of them produced in the workshop of Suzanne de Court, the only woman known to have led an enamel workshop in Limoges. Also part of the gift are a gilt-bronze sculpture, an ivory hilt, a pomander, ewers, saltcellars, and two clocks. Many of Gregory's objects came from such prestigious owners as the French royal collections and the Rothschilds. Included in the publication are commentaries on each gift. This lavishly illustrated publication accompanies an exhibition that will be on view at The Frick Collection February 16 through May 14, 2023.
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Brittle beauty : reflections on 18th-century european porcelain

Andreina D'Agliano, Claudia Lerner Jobst, Errol Manners, Ros Savil, Selma Schwartz, Jeff Munger
- Paul Holberton
- 8 Septembre 2023
- 9781912168293
Brittle Beauty presents a superlative private collection of European porcelain, comprising radical, rare and in many cases unique pieces assembled over thirty years. Lavishly illustrated and insightfully researched, the book showcases eighty vessels and sculptures, and includes accounts of their patrons and former owners, many as eccentric as the works themselves. One striking attribute of porcelain is its reflective glaze. Mirror-like in a wider sense, Brittle Beauty: Reflections on 18th Century European Porcelain examines the context in which this porcelain was created - including cultural, political, topographical and ceremonial aspects. It also looks at related materials such as silver, textiles and glass. The 18th century was the golden age of porcelain in Europe, which had previously been dependent on precious imports from the Far East. The discovery of the formula for hard-paste porcelain in Dresden in 1709 inspired the establishment of manufactories throughout the Continent. However, its popularity was not purely commercial: porcelain - with its meld of art and science, beauty and intellect, East and West - became a symbol of Enlightenment culture for every princely court. Chinese and Japanese motifs and European forms were synthesised with deceptive subtlety; later, creations of pure fantasy emerged, often based on travellers' accounts of exotic lands. Familiar Occidental themes such as nature, hunting or archaeology were paralleled by ironic narratives of love, display and vanity. Porcelain, with its fragile allure, is uniquely expressive of the human comedy, yet its destiny has often been brutally tragic. This book features essays from eminent scholars. It also showcases a wealth of stunning imagery from Sylvain Deleu, who expertly photographed the pieces, many for the first time.
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British portrait miniatures from the Thomson Collection

Susan Sloman
- Paul Holberton
- 6 Septembre 2024
- 9781915401120
Portrait miniatures were highly prized in Europe for nearly four hundred years and, unusually, artists based in Britain were the acknowledged masters of this specialised fi eld. Many of the best painters are represented in this remarkable but relatively little-known collection. As is illustrated and described in this book, miniatures were frequently made as tokens of love or memorials of loved ones; part-likeness, partreliquary and part-jewel, they might be wearable in a locket, on a bracelet or even on a fi nger ring, but their portability also made them desirable as gifts. Styles, techniques and modes of presentation naturally evolved between 1560 (the date of the fi rst miniature in the catalogue) and around 1900. Some changes happened rapidly; in England, for example, the foundation of exhibiting societies in 1760s created a demand for larger miniatures that could hang on the wall alongside full-sized portraits. The Thomson collection includes fi ne examples of the work of Nicholas Hilliard (from the Elizabethan period) and John Smart (from the eighteenth century) as well as notable portraits by less familiar names such as Jacob Van Doordt and James Scouler. It is apparent from the scope and character of his acquisitions that Ken Thomson never planned an encyclopaedic collection. Reacting to miniatures that spoke most eloquently to him when held in the hand, or examined under a glass, he developed over time a fondness for particular artists and had no qualms about omitting others altogether. Using this collection housed at the Art Gallery of Ontario as a case study, the catalogue discusses the function of miniatures, their material presence, the circumstances in which they were made and aspects of their later history. The homes and studios of the most successful painters, as sumptuous as those occupied by oil painters, often passed from one generation to another: here, one key property in Covent Garden is described and illustrated. In this book, for the fi rst time, a number of specialist artists' suppliers are identifi ed, showing where ivory could be obtained and enamel plates prepared and fi red. The links between enamelling for clock and watch faces and enamelling for miniatures are demonstrated. The illicit practice within the late nineteenth and early twentieth century art trade of duplicating old miniatures, a topic generally avoided in the literature, is addressed here. Miniatures are di cult to display in museums, but recently-developed photographic methods of identifying pigments are also proving to be a way of introducing a new audience to this multilayered subject. Eighteen years after Ken Thomson's death, there could not be a more opportune moment to highlight his collection.
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Fruit of friendship : portraits by Mary Beale

Ellie Smith, Lawrence Hendra
- Paul Holberton
- 6 Septembre 2024
- 9781913645748
Accompanying a major exhibition at Philip Mould & Company, Fruit of Friendship:
Portraits by Mary Beale presents the work of the remarkable sevenenteenth-century
woman artist.
Mary Beale (1633-1699) was Britain's first woman artist to run a successful studio
practice. In an era when the arts in Britain were flourishing and portraitists were in high
demand, Beale established a unique practice that set her apart from her competitors and
brought her great acclaim.
Friendship and family played a crucial role in Beale's success. She was the figurehead
of her family and studio, while her husband dedicated himself to supporting the
business, often preparing paints and canvasses. Beale's portraits, many of which are
illustrated here for the first time, build a picture of a talented and multi-faceted woman
- artist, writer, businesswoman, mother and friend.
The title of this publication and of the accompanying exhibition is drawn from
Beale's own writings, and the materials presented span her entire career. Featuring
essays by leading scholars, the catalogue introduces a number of recently discovered
portraits by Beale and showcases several important works that have never been publicly
displayed before.
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Modern drawings: the karshan gift

Malissard Coralie
- Paul Holberton
- 3 Décembre 2021
- 9781913645113
Ce magnifique catalogue regroupe pour la première fois de remarquables dessins modernes réalisés par des maîtres européens et américains et assemblés par feu Howard Karshan et sa femme, Linda, qui a récemment présenté les oeuvres à l'Institut Courtauld. Le catalogue, qui accompagne leur exposition à la Courtauld Gallery, inclut les dessins d'artistes renommés tels que Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Sam Francis, Cy Twombly, Gerhard Richter et Georg Baselitz.
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Peasants and proverbs : Pieter Brueghel the younger as moralist and entrepreneur

Robert Wenley
- Paul Holberton
- 2 Décembre 2022
- 9781913645397
This catalogue accompanies an exhibtion at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts that will shine the spotlight on Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564 - 1638), an artist who was hugely successful in his lifetime but whose later reputation has been overshadowed by that of his famous father, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525 - 1569). Peasants and Proverbs: Pieter Brueghel the Younger as Moralist and Entrepreneur shares recent research into the Barber's comical yet enigmatic little painting, Two Peasants Binding Firewood, setting out fresh insights and offering a new appreciation of a figure whose prodigious output and business skills firmly established and popularised the distinctive 'Brueghelian' look of Netherlandish peasant life. Born in Brussels, Pieter Brueghel the Younger was just five years old when hisalready renowned father died prematurely. Clearly talented, by the time he was around 20 years old, Brueghel the Younger was already registered as a master in Antwerp's Guild of Saint Luke. Between 1588, the year of his marriage, and 1626, he took on nine apprentices, demonstrating that he had established a successful studio. His workshop produced an abundance of paintings, ranging from exact copies of famous compositions by his father, to pastiches and more inventive compositions that further promoted the distinctive Bruegelian 'family style', usually focused on scenes of peasant life. He was, as a consequence, later deemed a second-rate painter, capable of only producing derivative works. This exhibition and book highlight how a more sophisticated understanding is now emerging of a creative and capable artist, and a savvy entrepreneur, who exploited favourable market conditions from his base in cosmopolitan Antwerp. From this deeper understanding of his practice, his favoured subjects and the market for them, we gain a more profound and compelling insight into the society in which he operated and its preoccupations and passions. A dozen other versions of Two Peasants Binding Firewood exist and, by examining some of them alongside the Barber painting, and using the insights gleaned from recent conservation work and technical analysis, the exhibition and book will explore how Brueghel the Younger operated his studio to produce and reproduce paintings, and the extent to which the entire enterprise was motivated by trends in the contemporary art market.
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Sovereign artist : Charles le Brun and the image of Louis XIV

Burchard Wolf
- Paul Holberton
- 9 Janvier 2017
- 9781911300052
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Whistler and nature

Patricia De Montfort, Clare Willsdon
- Paul Holberton
- 11 Janvier 2019
- 9781911300496
The Anglo-American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903) is a household name - a man who inspired and astonished the Victorian world. Less well known, though, is the influence of nature on Whistler's work. This innovative and compelling study reconsiders Whistler's work from the context of his military service and his relationship with 'nature at the margins', showing how Whistler's observation of nature and its moods underpinned his haunting visions of nineteenth-century life.
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The splendor of Germany ; eighteenth-century drawings from the Crocker Art Museum

William Breazeale, Anke Frohlich-Schauseil
- Paul Holberton
- 7 Février 2020
- 9781911300779
Le Crocker Art Museum possède les toutes premières et meilleures collections de dessins des Etats-Unis. Présentant des artistes tels que Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Anton Raphael Mengs ou encore Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, The Splendor of Germany examine les principales évolutions des techniques de dessinateurs allemands au cours du XVIIIème siècle.
Publié à l'occasion du 150ème anniversaire de la collection.
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Van Gogh, self-portraits

Karen Serres, Louis van Tilborgh, Martin Bailey
- Paul Holberton
- 4 Mars 2022
- 9781913645205
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Italian maiolica and other early modern ceramics in the courtauld gallery

Elisa Sani
- Paul Holberton
- 8 Décembre 2023
- 9781913645168
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