William Nicholson
Subtitle: catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings
By: Patricia Reed
Contributors: Nicholson, William, 1872-1949
Publisher: Modern Art Press; Yale University Press; Modern Art Press, Ltd
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780300170542
Subjects: Catalogues raisonnés; Painters; Criticism and interpretation; Ölmalerei
Description: William Nicholson (1872-1949) is among the most admired and elusive painters in the history of British art. Neither academic nor overtly modernist, his ravishing paintings are a singular achievement of the early twentieth century. The breadth of Nicholson's painting is revealed in this sumptuous book, the first fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of the oils. Many of Nicholson's pictures have not been recorded before and most are reproduced here for the first time. The catalogue, which represents more than twenty years of scholarship Nicholson's oil paintings and the most comprehensive chronology of his life to date. The art historian Wendy Baron gives a context for Nicholson in British art at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the painter and critic Merlin James celebrates the virtuosity of Nicholson's painting technique and the cerebral subtlety of this most individual of painters.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 'British art in the time of William Nicholson' / Wendy Baron; title: 'William Nicholson: painting and experience' / Merlin James; title: Introduction to the catalogue raisonné; title: Family trees; title: Catalogue; title: Unidentified Works and references; title: Signatures; title: Works in Public collections; title: Solo and major exhibitions from 1900-2010; title: Appendix to solo and major exhibitions from 1900 to 2010; title: Archives; title: Concordance with browse; title: Bibliography; title: Index of titles of Works in oils by William Nicholson; title: Index of unidentified works by William Nicholson and references.