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[2018]
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"A masterful novel that moves from Roman apartments to SoHo galleries to the South of France and tells the story of the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of THE IMPERFECTIONISTS. Rome, 1955. The artists gather for a picture at a party in an ancient villa. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast canvases, larger than life, is at the centre of the picture. His wife, Natalie, edges out of the shot. From the side...
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Publisher
Motorbooks Intl., Quarto Publishing
Pub. Date
©2019
Physical Desc
32 pages
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"Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter and today is one of the world's favourite artists. As a child, she was badly affected by polio, and later suffered a terrible accident that left her disabled and in pain. Shortly after this accident, Kahlo took up painting, and through her surreal, symbolic self portraits described the pain she suffered, as well as the treatment of women, and her sadness at not being able to have a child. This book tells the story...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Presents an illustrated introduction to the life and work of artist Horace Pippin, describing his childhood love for drawing and the World War I injury that challenged his career.
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"A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as...
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If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures? Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hooper.
9) Edgar Degas
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Examines the life and work of the nineteenth-century artist Edgar Degas, who loved to paint scenes of Paris and the people who worked and lived there.
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Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xv, 403 pages ; 21 cm
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From its first arresting sentence, Sarah Dunant's magnificent novel embroils the reader in the coming-of-age story of Alessandra Cecchi, a fourteen-year-old girl with a strong will and a passion for painting. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter...
12) The forest lover
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
564 p. ; 25 cm.
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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
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Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
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Locked in an attic and forced to produce paintings for her uncle's rich clients, Bryony Gray sees her works begin to take on a life of their own and wreak havoc in the real world, leading her to discover a deadly curse inherited from her missing father.
16) Marc Chagall
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Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
17) Diego Rivera
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Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
207 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
18) Claude Monet
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Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
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Introduces the life and work of Claude Monet, discussing his early years, life in London and various parts of France, and development as a painter.
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Publisher
David Zwirner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xiv, 509 pages : illustrations chiefly color ; 20 cm
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"Phoebe Hoban's definitive biography of the renowned American painter Alice Neel tells the unforgettable story of an artist whose life spanned the twentieth century, from women's suffrage through the Depression, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and feminism. Throughout her life and work, Neel constantly challenged convention, ultimately gaining an enduring place in the canon. Alice Neel's stated goal was to "capture the...
20) Martyr!
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
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