Painting & Paintings

A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting ...

This fully illustrated catalogue, with essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field of Picasso studies, tells the remarkable story of Pablo...

Georgia OKeeffe (18871986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting...

Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (18341917) in fact defied easy categor...

Inspired by the recent identification of a third autograph version of Gainsboroughs masterpiece The Cottage Door, this book examines the significan...

Lucian Freud (19222011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portr...

With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla...

Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, the art of fresco painting was to be found across all regions of Italy. This volume aims to il...

Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, the art of fresco painting was to be found across all regions of Italy. This volume aims to il...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (18801938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic wave...

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (19111914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the developm...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impress...

Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (18341917) in fact defied easy categor...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, pain...

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (19111914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the developm...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, pain...

This book accompanies an exhibition at Waddesdon that will unite Chardins four paintings of a boy with a house of cards for the first time (loans c...

There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (15771640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality...

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (19121956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. C...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (18411919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring pu...

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (18531890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Po...

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (19121956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. C...

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of mod...

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (14751564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His man...

Paul Gauguin (18481903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen...

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (14751564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His man...

Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of G.F. Watts, this book provides a lively and engaging introduction to one of the most c...

Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London, this fascinating book will re-introduce Joseph Highmore (16921780), an...