William Nicholson, Painter: Paintings, Woodcuts, Writings, Photographs by Edited by Andrew Nicholson soon to be presented for sale on the fantastic BookLovers of Bath web site!
Published: London: Giles de la Mare, 1996, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Contains: Black & white photographs; Chronological tables [1]; Colour plates; Black & white plates; Black & white drawings; Colour frontispiece; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
From the cover: William Nicholson (1872-1949), who is known by many for his early woodcuts and the radical posters of the Beggarstaff Brothers in the 1890s, has become recognized as one of the foremost English artists of his time for the whole range of his work. His haunting downland landscapes, his remarkable still lifes, which capture light and colour in an entirely fresh way, and the varied portraits by which he mainly earned his living form the core of his output and have become greatly prized. This book, compiled by two grandsons, Andrew and Tim Nicholson, is with its representative selection of his pictures the first to do justice to the extraordinary diversity of William Nicholsons oeuvre.
It provides at the same time a documentary account of William Nicholsons life, using contemporary records, articles and reminiscences, and above all quoting extensively from the numerous letters William wrote to his family and friends, many of them to his son Ben Nicholson, and from the letters they wrote to him as well. The majority are from private sources and have never appeared in print before. What emerges in this unique and beautifully illustrated volume is a highly detailed and most appealing portrait of the man and the artist.
What he painted, why and for whom; what spurred him on to experiment and artistic adventure; how he fared in times of elation and anguish; how he combined the serious playfulness of his vision with a deep affection for nature; and how he collaborated with some of the leading men of his day, among them Rudyard Kipling, J. M. Barrie, William Orpen, Edwin Lutyens, his son-in-law Robert Graves, and Winston Churchill all this is revealed, and much more.
William Nicholson, Painter includes 110 colour plates of his oil paintings and over 250 black and white reproductions and photographs.
Introduction by: Alan Bowness
Very Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper appears unevenly faded on the lower panel otherwise a very well presented copy.
Grey boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 292 pages. Index. 12″ x 9½”.
Of course, if you don’t like this one, may I tempt you with something from my Art Individual Artists catalogue?
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