A Day with Marie-Antoinette: An Intimate Portrait of Her Life at Versailles by Hélène Delalex; Francis Hammond; Catherine Pégard
$49.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists | Series: A\Day At Ser.
Featuring personal correspondence, lavish illustrations, and a wealth of unpublished material, this handsome slipcased volume reveals an intimate portrait of Marie Antoinette, her personal collections, and Versailles. Marie Antoinette was a mirror of her time. Never has a queen been so passionately admi ...Show more
Monet: The Early Years by George T. M. Shackelford
$65.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
This elegant volume is the first to be devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet (1840-1926). Bringing together the greatest paintings from his early career-including his first Salon-exhibited work, the Kimbell Art Museum's La Pointe de la Heve at Low Tide; Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) ...Show more
Klimt and the Women of Vienna's Golden Age, 1900 1918 by Tobias G. Natter
$110.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
This authoritative and generously illustrated book highlights Gustav Klimt s portrayals of women in his work. Klimt was a central figure in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, and a crucial link between nineteenth-century Symbolism and Modernism. His sensual portrayals of women are among his mo ...Show more
Hidden Frida Kahlo: Lost, Destroyed or Little Known Works by Helga Prignitz-Poda
$90.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
In this fascinating look at over 180 "hidden" images Helga Prignitz-Poda, one of the world's leading authorities on the Mexican artist, pulls back the curtain on masterpieces that rarely, if ever, see the inside of an exhibition or gallery. Illustrated with stunning reproductions of works that Prignitz- ...Show more
Sanctuary by Transglobe
$100.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
From Botticelli to Bacon, da Vinci to Damien Hirst, artists have invested their personalities in the environments in which they have worked. Although today numerous artists have abandoned the studio model in favor of new modes of working enabled by new technologies, the studio space, often containing th ...Show more
Dean Home: an Artist's Journey by McGregor Ken
$120.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Dean Home's works are a sensual delight to behold. The artist is a master colourist who brings together an array of influences to create sumptuous still lifes. Entering in the worlds that Home creates feels like stumbling into Coleridge's Xanadu, his paintings burst with rich jades and crimsons, exotic ...Show more
Alex Katz: Looking at Art by Alex Katz; Amanda Renshaw
$29.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Have you ever dreamt of having your own private museum tour with one of the world's most-celebrated artists? Take a walk through art history in the company of one of the pre-eminent American painters of our time, Alex Katz. Describing his personal encounters with the work of over 90 key artists, Katz's ...Show more
Basquiat by Himself by Dieter Buchhart
$80.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
An American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) first made a name for himself as part of a graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams on the Manhattan's Lower East Side during the 1970s, a place and time that saw the coalescence of hip hop, punk, and street art cult ...Show more
Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces by Miles J. Unger
$36.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Among the immortals-Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso-Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture. He was not only the greatest artist in an age of giants, but a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed with patrons by insisting t ...Show more
Rembrandt's Universe: His Art - His Life - His World by Gary Schwartz
$70.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Published to coincide with the major exhibition at the National Gallery this autumn, here is the ultimate book on Rembrandt's art and life his work as an artist, his family, friends and patrons, his place in European culture by one of the worlds best-known writers on Dutch art. Designed to be the Rembra ...Show more
Margaret Olley by Barry Pearce
$120.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Margaret Hannah Olley AC (24 June 1923 -- 26 July 2011) was an Australian painter. She was the subject of more than 90 solo exhibitions. Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She attended Somerville House in Brisbane during her high school years. She was so focused on art that she dropped ...Show more
This is Pollock by Catherine Ingram
$19.95 AUD
Category: Famous artists | Series: This is
In 1956 Time magazine referred to Pollock as 'Jack the Dripper'. His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale of the landscape of America's West where the artist grew up. Pollock said that he painted 'out of his consciousness': the cathartic dribbled paint reflected his troubled mind. ...Show more