Product Description: One of the masterpieces of The Courtauld Gallery’s collection of Spanish drawings is a sheet known as Cantar y bailar (Singing and dancing), page 3 from Goya’s Album D, also known as the ‘Witches and Old Women’ album. Bringing together all the extant album pages, currently numbered up to 23, this catalogue proposes a reconstruction of the album that would include the sheets from which Goya’s page numbers have been erased or trimmed away...read more

Product Description: Manet's well-known painting in the National Gallery London of a café-concert – a kind of cabaret performance and music-making that was the latest fashion in Paris of the 1870s – has a peculiar history. The painter initially planned an ambitious canvas with which he grew dissatisfied, then cut it in two, one half being the painting in the National Gallery and the other half now in Winterthur in Switzerland...read more

Product Description: Known for his expressive portraits and London landscapes, draftsman, printmaker, and painter Leon Kossoff (b. 1926) is one of the most significant British artists of the past fifty years. A member of the School of London––a group of loosely representational painters including Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, and Lucian Freud––Kossoff views drawing as fundamental to the artistic process and has turned to art history for inspiration throughout his career...read more

Product Description: Goya's vision of humanity is as relevant today as it was revolutionary in his own time. He expressed his private thoughts and feelings in eight albums of drawings: this book features 117 of Goya's finest album drawings, accompanied by extensive commentaries.

The first book to highlight the French painter's long-standing love affair with the ocean celebrates his fascination in words and images, highlighting the paintings that reflect his knowledge of, and passion for, all things maritime and oceanic. (Fine Arts)

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Chronicling the essential moments in Manet's life, a detailed examination of his works highlights 240 full-color reproductions and considers Manet's role as an important avant-garde and impressionist artist.

Product Description: This catalogue of a major exhibition of small-scale paintings by Goya surveys his work throughout his career. It includes sketches for tapestry cartoons, for his major altarpieces, his small portraits and the series of small paintings of the 1790s.

Product Description: The execution by firing squad in 1867 of Maximilian, the puppet emperor installed in Mexico by Napoleon III, was to have far-reaching implications, shattering the international prestige of France and hastening the collapse of the Second Empire...read more

Product Description: Book by Wilson-Bareau, Juliet