num_pages: 451
description: Wonderful plates of art. Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse. He then developed a style of portraiture that was imaginative and often extravagant, catching an instantaneous attitude in his subjects."[
language: English
title: Augustus John: Autobiography
titlecomplete: Augustus John: Autobiography
characters: Augustus John
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 2
places: Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
publisher: Jonathan Cape