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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Titre(s) : Eileen Gray [Texte imprimé] : the private painter / Peter Adam and Andrew Lambirth
Publication : London : Lund Humphries and Osborne Samuel, 2015
Description matérielle : 104 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Comprend : Eileen Gray : a lifelong business / Andrew Lambirth ; Eileen Gray as an artist /
Peter Adam.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is widely known today as a pioneer of
both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning nearly 80 years she produced innovative
designs for furniture, lighting, carpets, interiors and architecture. Much less well
known is that throughout her life as a designer and an architect she never stopped
producing small paintings and drawings. This book is the first to focus on Eileen
Gray's important but essentially private work as a painter. Eileen Gray considered
herself a designer and an architect, not a painter: she viewed her work as a painter
with great modesty, treating it as a private occupation and a vehicle for artistic
expression during periods when she could not design furniture. Much of her artwork
has disappeared, either lost in the Second World War or destroyed by the artist herself.
But a body of works on paper, produced between the 1920s and the 1950s, has survived:
elegant, geometric drawings and gouaches of muted tonality and subtle power.0This
book, which reproduces unseen material from the Eileen Gray archive and draws on Gray's
correspondence with her niece Prunella Clough on the nature of painting, will be a
revelation to her many followers and admirers
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Adam, Peter (1929-2019). Éditeur scientifique
Lambirth, Andrew (1959-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Gray, Eileen (1878-1976)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-84822-183-3 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1848221835 (hardcover) (alk.
paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44435027k
Notice n° :
FRBNF44435027
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
