Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi: They Are Greeting
R200exhibition catalogue of Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi’s solo show They Are Greeting – An exhibition of paintings, prints and sculpture at Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, in 2016
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Moore In America
R230MetLife foundation is proud to present a landmark exhibition by the internationally acclaim Henry Moore. ‘Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture at the New York Botanic Garden, on display from May 24, to November 2, 2008, is the largest outdoor exhibition of Moore’s work ever presented in the United States.
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Munch (Colour library series)
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is the only Scandinavian painter of modern times to have achieved a world reputation. A tragic childhood – his mother died when he was five and a sister when he was thirteen – wounded him deeply, and much of his early work expresses this in its agonized pessimism. -
Out of stockNicholas Hlobo: Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2009
R350Nicholas Hlobo’s first monograph, published on the occasion of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award, traces his work from 2005 to 2009, including the making of his SBYA exhibition.
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Niki de Saint Phalle
R400Beautiful, flamboyant, daring and fiercely independent, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) emerged in the 1960s as a powerful and original figure in the male-dominated art world centred on Paris. That city contains perhaps her best-known monument, the vibrant, colourful and hugely popular Fontaine Stravinsky, near the Pompidou Centre, created in 1983.
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Paul Gauguin – Artist of Myth and Dream
R800An exceptional monograph-catalogue revealing the innovative drive in Gauguin’s work. This catalogue offers a unique opportunity to view Gauguin’s entire artistic development from his early impressionist works to his final masterpieces painted on the Marquesas Islands where the artist went in search of an Arcadian kingdom “of ecstasy, peace and art, far from the typical European struggle for money”.
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Paul Klee: Selected By Genius
R230As an avant-garde artist of the twentieth century, painter Paul Klee’s work defies classification. What is indisputable, however, is its originality and brilliance. Taken from the artist’s most prolific years, 1917-1933, this book presents works that Klee never intended to sell. More than 100 colour plates reveal Klee’s chromatic genius and wide stylistic range. Along…
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British Artists: Paul Nash
R175As a painter, illustrator and critic, Paul Nash (1889-1946) was at the forefront of British art in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Penny Siopis – Grief
R1250Penny Siopis’ Grief brings together a series of small glue and ink paintings on paper – occasionally with the addition of oil and collage elements – produced over a period of two years following the experience of devastating personal loss. The ‘Notes’ are bought together for the first time, accompanied by a poetic text by the artist that draws on writings by the likes of Mahmoud Darwish, Roland Barthes and Joan Didion on grief, concluding with Emily Dickinson:
‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes –’
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Penny Siopis – Shame
R1250For the first time, Penny Siopis’ Shame paintings, produced between 2002 and 2005, are brought together in monographic form as a companion to her new series of Notes, collectively titled Grief. These small mixed media paintings (including mirror paint, oil, enamel, glue, watercolour, paper varnish and found objects) are ‘intimate imaginings of childhood sexuality and dread’.
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Peter Fraser
R500Peter Fraser has been at the forefront of contemporary photography since the early 1980s. Much of his work involves an almost obsessive focus on the stuff of the world, the matter and materials that he finds in the everyday.
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Peter Schütz: An Eye On The World
R350This catalogue accompanied the exhibition that ran at Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, in 2015, entitled Peter Schütz: An Eye On The World, celebrating the late artist’s legacy.
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Picasso
R170‘Lively, intelligent, free of cant and well written: a good introduction to a difficult subject’ The Burlington Magazine
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Pieter Hugo – This Must Be the Place
R600This Must Be the Place presents nearly 10 years of work by award-winning photographer Pieter Hugo. The book includes a selection of over 100 seminal images from series including Looking Aside (2003-6), Rwanda: Vestiges of a Genocide (2004), The Hyena and Other Men (2005-7), Nollywood (2008-9), Permanent Error (2009-10) and the previously unpublished Kin (2008-2012).
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Richard Dadd – The Artist and the Asylum
R400Expert Nicholas Tromans provides incredible insight on this great artist’s life – to listen to a few of them, click here.
