When We Were Young: Two Centuries of Children's Book Illustration

First edition. 123 illustrations with 44 in color. 96 pages. stiff paper wrappers.. 4to..

When we were young: Two centuries of children's book illustration

Feaver, William

Children's Books

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

4to. 96 pp, Two centuries of children's book illustration; The color and b&w Plates; annotated list of illustrations, acknowledgments. First Edition, 1977. Red cloth with yellow lettering to front board and spine. ``This book is a comprehensive international survey of art in children's books from William Blake to the advent of the television era in the 1950s. The author's introductory text discusses technques, sources, influences, styles and the illustrators themselves: Tenniel, Crane, Doyle, Rackman, Cruikshank, Burra, Lear, Sendakand many more. The plate selection includes more than 123 illustrations, forty-four incolor, each one fully annotated." from the jacket flap.

Arts & Photography

Drawing

A large well-illustrated history of the work and signifigance of caricature. Many colour and black and white illustrations, with an extensive text.

Masters of caricature from Hogarth and Gillray to Scarfe and Levine. Introduction and commentary by William Feaver. Edited by Ann Gould

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

New York, New York, U.S.A.: A Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1981. "Caricatures have been amusing, shocking and informing a wide and varied public for the last 300 years; yet this is the first fully illustrated book devoted to the history of this genuinely popular art. A total of 243 international caricaturists are discussed in the form of individual biographies, each illustrated with one or more examples of their work. An intriguing perspective on the social, political, and cultural life of Western society from the seventeenth century to the present day. Art critic William Feaver provides a commentary placing each generation of caricaturists in its historical context." . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by 250 Black &amp; White and 28 Color Illustrations. Coffee Table Book. Price Clipped. A Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf Inc 0394509048 US

Masters of caricature: From Hogarth and Gillray to Scarfe and Levine

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Lucian Freud: Recent Works, November 2 - December 20, 2006

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Cover has edgewear and light soiling.

THAMES HUDSON LTD

The first biography of the epic life of one of the most important, enigmatic and private artists of the 20th century. Drawn from almost 40 years of conversations with the artist, letters and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is one of the most influential figurative painters of the 20th century. His paintings are in every major museum and many private collections here and abroad. William Feaver's daily calls from 1973 until Freud died in 2011, as well as interviews with family and friends were crucial sources for this book.Freud had ferocious energy, worked day and night but his circle was broad including not just other well-known artists but writers, bluebloods, royals in England and Europe, drag queens, fashion models gamblers, bookies and gangsters like the Kray twins. Fierce, rebellious, charismatic, extremely guarded about his life, he was witty, mischievous and a womanizer. This brilliantly researched and well written book begins with the Freuds' life in Berlin, the rise of Hitler and the family's escape to London in 1933 when Lucian was 10. Sigmund Freud was his grandfather and Ernst, his father was an architect. In London in his twenties, his first solo show was in 1944 at the Lefevre Gallery. Around this time, Stephen Spender introduced him to Virginia Woolf, at night he was taking Pauline Tennant to the Gargoyle Club, owned by her father and frequented by Dylan Thomas; he was also meeting Sonia Orwell, Cecil Beaton, Auden, Patrick Leigh-Fermor and the Aly Khan, and his muse was a married femme fatale, 13 years older, Lorna Wishart. But it was Francis Bacon who would become his most important influence and the painters Frank Auerbach and David Hockney, close friends. On Freud's first trip to Paris in 1946 he met the artists Picasso, Giacometti, Andre Breton, Alexander Calder and Balthus. Next was a trip to Greece then trips to the south of France with the Graham Sutherlands. More shows followed in London and Paris and Kenneth Clark tried to buy a painting in 1947 for the Tate, Alfred Barr did buy one for MoMa in 1948, the year Freud married his first wife Kitty Garman Epstein, the daughter of the famous sculptor, Jacob Epstein. In 1952 he eloped with Lady Caroline Blackwood to Paris where they married in 1953; there were two girls from the first marriage but he had twelve other children from his many liasons. This is an extremely intimate, lively and rich portrait of the artist, full of gossip and stories recounted by Freud to Feaver about people, encounters, and work. Freud's art was his life—"my work is purely autobiographical"—and he usually painted only family, friends, lovers, children, though there were exceptions like the famous small portrait of the Queen. With his later portraits, the subjects were often nude, names were never given and sittings could take up to 16 months, each session lasting five hours but subjects were rarely bored as Freud was a great raconteur and mimic. This book is a major achievement, a tour de force that reveals the details of the life and innermost thoughts of the greatest portrait painter of our time. Volume I has 41 black and white integrated images, and 2 eight-page color inserts.

The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years: 1922-1968

KNOPF

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE In this brilliant second and final volume of the definitive biography of Lucian Freud--one of the most influential, enigmatic and secretive artists of the twentieth century--William Feaver, the noted art critic, draws on years of daily conversations with Freud, on his private papers and letters and on interviews with his friends and family to explore the intimate life of Freud, from age forty-five to his death in 2011 at the age of eighty-nine. The final forty years of Freud's life were a period of increasing recognition and fame, and of prodigious output. He was obsessed with his art, and with the idea of producing paintings that "astonish, disturb, seduce, convince." He was equally energetic and ambitious in his private life. &nbsp;This book opens with his dramatic affair with Jacquetta Eliot, which led to some of his most intimate portraits and to the start of two important, lifelong friendships, with Jane Willoughby and Susanna Chancellor. Freud talks about his art at all stages, how it changed in the seventies and his first retrospective in London in 1974. His move to a new studio in Holland Park in the late seventies marked an important increase in the scale of his work, such as Large Interior W11 (After Watteau), which was his breakthrough painting. In this space, people would come and go--his children, his lover, the painter Celia Paul and all the sitters from his nightlife. His close friendship with Francis Bacon would end and be replaced with that of Frank Auerbach. His obsession with gambling would give way to work, and from the nineties through the 2000s, a wide range of subjects would sit for him, including the performance artist Leigh Bowery; Kate Moss; Jerry Hall; supervisor Sue Tilley; his longtime assistant, David Dawson; his own children; and, in 2001, Queen Elizabeth. Two phenomenally successful exhibitions would transform his international reputation: the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC in 1988 and a retrospective at the Tate in 2002. Here is Freud's voice--still as fierce, complicated, witty and charismatic&nbsp;as in his youth--talking about his art, his friends and lovers and the gossip about them all, making this volume, like the first, a nod to autobiography. Vivid and engrossing, The Lives of Lucian Freud is a dazzling and authoritative tour de force that reveals important new details about the thoughts, the life and the work of this elusive artist.

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame: 1968-2011

Van Gogh (Great Artists)

Longmeadow Pr.

, 176 pages, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout, complete

Pitmen painters: The Ashington Group 1934-1984

Chatto&Windus

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When we were young: Two centuries of children's book illustration

When We Were Young: Two Centuries of Children's Book Illustration

Masters of caricature from Hogarth and Gillray to Scarfe and Levine. Introduction and commentary by William Feaver. Edited by Ann Gould

Masters of caricature: From Hogarth and Gillray to Scarfe and Levine

Lucian Freud: Recent Works, November 2 - December 20, 2006

When we were young: Two centuries of children's book illustration

The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years: 1922-1968

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame: 1968-2011

Van Gogh (Great Artists)

Pitmen painters: The Ashington Group 1934-1984