Accompanying a major exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue explores a remarkable and unprecedented series of paintings by Peter Lanyon (1918–1964), one of Britain’s most important and original post-War artists. Lanyon sought to create a new vision of landscape painting for the modern era. He considered himself to be extending the landscape traditions of earlier artists, in particular Turner, whom he admired greatly. Lanyon strove to find a language of painting that expressed his direct experience of the landscape which might also probe questions about the nature of our existence within the world. During the 1950s, he produced radical, near-abstract paintings of the tough coastal landscape of his native West Cornwall. He was fueled by a desire to experience that landscape as completely as possible. In the summer of 1956, Lanyon was walking across a high cliff top when he looked up, saw three gliders soaring overhead and realized that this was the experience he desired. He began gliding seriously in 1959 and went solo for the first time in 1960, clocking up many flying hours over the next few years. Freed from a land-bound perspective, Lanyon poured his new gliding experiences into his art, producing paintings that offer a thrilling sense of his encounters with the land, sea and air, collapsing the multiple perspectives of his flights into each new composition. The paintings are also profoundly shaped by Lanyon’s newfound glider pilot’s knowledge of the character of the air - its different movements, textures and forces, as well as the dangers and lifelines that it presents as one navigates through the thermals and up-draughts that are the invisible map essential for the glider’s survival in the sky. Lanyon’s gliding paintings stand as a unique achievement of twentieth-century art, reinventing and furthering the tradition of landscape painting in ways that can also be seen to engage deeply with the pressing existentialist concerns of the post-War world. This remarkable project was cut short by Lanyon’s unexpected death in August 1964 whilst in hospital recovering from a gliding accident. Accompanying the first ever exhibition devoted to Lanyon’s gliding paintings, this book will offer a pioneering account of this important but overlooked body of work, bringing together around fifteen major paintings from public and private collections internationally, alongside a small group of constructions.

Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings

Arts & Photography

Smiles, Sam

Garlake, Margaret

Treves, Toby

History & Criticism

Paul Holberton Publishing

A record of every print Freud made, from early linocuts of the 1930s to his last etching published in 2007 This first volume of the Lucian Freud catalogue raisonné focuses on the artist's prints. The only complete volume of Freud's prints, the book builds upon the work of earlier cataloguers and adds much new material which has come to light since the artist's death. The volume records every print Freud made, from the early linocuts of the 1930s to his last etching published in 2007. Each work--including uneditioned etchings and unique proofs--is reproduced and fully catalogued by Toby Treves. Treves's remarks include clear, precise technical detail for specialists and are informed by his knowledge of the wider oeuvre. An essay by the critic and Freud specialist Sebastian Smee, and an interview between art historian Martin Gayford and Freud's main printmaker, Marc Balakjian, provide further insights into this part of the artist's oeuvre. The catalogue raisonné has been designed by Design Holborn, also responsible for the recent publications Lucian Freud, with text by Martin Gayford, and Lucian Freud: A Life.

Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints

Modern Art Press

Recording all of the artist's oil paintings in four volumes with detailed entries, new photography, and accompanying essays &nbsp; This Lucian Freud catalogue raisonné is the first attempt to comprehensively catalogue the artist's oil paintings. Over 600 works in the publication are presented and fully catalogued by Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves, with separate entries on each work providing essential information, provenance, and history of exhibition and literature, followed by individual remarks. Lampert and Treves provide new analysis of the paintings, informed by their collaborative research and collective knowledge of Freud's oeuvre. Almost every work is reproduced in colour, including many for the first time. &nbsp; The catalogue contains several essays by contributors, including the critic and Freud specialist Sebastian Smee, National Gallery research fellow Jacob Simon, and curator and art historian Colin Wiggins. A chronology of Freud's life and work, comprehensive lists of solo and group exhibitions, and a bibliography provide a full overview of Freud's career and critical responses to it, making the catalogue raisonné indispensable for research.

Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings

LAMPERT, Catherine

Indian Art I

Boer, Jane De

Fukuoka, Masanori

Souza, Shelly

Sowani, Angeli

Vadehra Art Gallery (Acc)

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