Seurat: Bathers at Asnieres
ISBN: PB: 9781857097474,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
September 2025
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
Although beloved today, Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnieres was rejected from the Salon exhibition to which it was first submitted. The work, painted when the artist was only 24 years old, was intended to make a statement. Meticulously planned, its...
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Vigee Le Brun: Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
ISBN: PB: 9781857097481,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
September 2025
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
This beautifully illustrated book in the National Gallery's new One Painting, One Story series explores the making and meaning of Vigee Le Brun's Self Portrait in a Straw Hat.
The 1782 work Self Portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le...
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Holbein: The Ambassadors
ISBN: PB: 9781857097313,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
March 2025
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
Holbein's Ambassadors is one of the most famous paintings in the National Gallery. It is also one of the most intriguing. Laden with hidden symbols and mysteries, the work has been the subject of intense debate among historians during the five centur...
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Leonardo: The Virgin of the Rocks
ISBN: PB: 9781857097320,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
March 2025
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
Leonardo's "The Virgin of the Rocks" is one of the most famous paintings in the National Gallery. With a composition that was developed and revisited by the artist throughout his life, the work encapsulates many of Leonardo's diverse interests: in th...
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Monet: The Water-Lily Pond
ISBN: PB: 9781857097337,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
March 2025
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
In 1893 Claude Monet, a keen gardener, bought a plot of land next to his house in Giverny, where he wanted to create a water garden "both for the pleasure of the eye and for the purpose of having subjects to paint". He filled the pond with water lili...
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Van Gogh: Sunflowers
ISBN: PB: 9781857097290,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
September 2024
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
64 pp., 21,0x16,0 cm, 30 colour illus.
"The sunflower is mine", Van Gogh once declared. No other artist has been so closely associated with a specific flower, and his sunflower pictures are among his most loved works.
In this compact and richly illustrated book, Martin Gayford explores t...
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