Paintings V 1969-1975 by Jacques Dupin; Joan Miró; Ariane Lelong-Mainaud

$250.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine

Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Mir (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Mir created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume ca talogue raisonn of Mir 's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Mir Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Mir . The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced. ...Show more

Miró - Paintings IV 1959-1968 by Jacques Dupin (Editor); Joan Punyet Miró (Editor); Ariane Lelong-Mainaud (Editor)

$250.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine

Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Mir (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Mir created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume ca talogue raisonn of Mir 's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Mir Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Mir . The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced. ...Show more

The Official Catalogue of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field

$550.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine

George Stubbs and the Wide Creation: Animals, People and Places in the life of George Stubbs, 1724-1806 by Robin Blake

$20.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Far more than a fine horse portraitist, George Stubbs was a painter and a printmaker of the highest importance, on a par with his great contemporaries, Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough. An artist-scientist who emulated Leonardo da Vinci, Stubbs tirelessly explored the natural world, and new ways of re presenting it. Born the son of a Liverpool tradesman, Stubbs was self-taught and at first struggled in obscurity as a northern provincial painter. Robin Blake's book uncovers Stubbs's origins and some of the secrets of his youth: sympathy with the Jacobite rebels and Catholicism; and a previously undocumented wife and family in York. A 'niece', Mary, became his mistress and lifelong companion, working alongside him as he dissected the carcasses of horses. In 1776 he published these investigations as The Anatomy of the Horse, which was his breakthrough, leading to commissions from the most powerful men in Georgian Britain. By tracing the network of patronage and friendship through which George Stubbs operated, Robin Blake reveals the remarkable succession of animals, people and ideas which inspired him. Stubbs emerges as a man of huge energy and complex sensibility whose artistry was informed by science, politics, literature, classical art and - above all - nature itself. ...Show more

Vincent Van Gogh Paintings & Drawings

$14.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Pablo Ruiz Picasso - A Biography by Patrick O'Brian

$16.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Everything about Picasso, except his physical stature, was on an enormous scale. No painter of the first rank has been so awe-inspiringly productive. No painter of any rank has made so much money. A few painters have rivaled his life span of ninety years, but none has attracted so avid, so insatiable, a public interest.Patrick O'Brian knew Picasso sufficiently well to have a strong sense of his personality. The man that emerges from this scholarly, passionate, and brilliantly written biography is one of many contradictions: hard and tender, mean and generous, affectionate and cold, private despite the relish of his fame. In his later years he professed communism, yet in O'Brian's view retained to the end of his life a residual Catholic outlook.Not that such matters were allowed to interfere with his vigorous sensuality. Sex and money, eating and drinking, friends and quarrels, comedies and tragedies, suicides and wars tumble one another in the vast chaos of his experience. he was "a man almost as lonely as the sun, but one who glowed with much the same fierce, burning life." It is with that impression of its subject that this book leaves its readers. ...Show more

Poet & Painter being the Correspondence BVetween Gordon Bottomley and paul Nash 1910-1946 by Claude Colleer Abbott and Anthony Bertram (eds)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good

Utamaro by Muneshige Narazaki and Sadao Kikuchi

$15.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Masterworks of Ukiyo-e | Reading Level: very good

Frank Stella by William S. Rubin

$16.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good

The Life of Eric Gill

$40.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good

Gustave Doré - A Biography by Joanna Richardson

$14.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Stanley Spencer RA by Stanley Spencer; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) Staff (Contribution by)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good