Child: Portraits by 40 Great Artists

Price 17.96 - 19.34 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780711233379


Juliet Heslewood, art historian and author of Mother and Lover, brings together a collection of portraits of artists" children, through history to the present day. The evolution of these portraits begins with a unique and intimate relationship. Looking at each work and considering its individual history can tell us much about this relationship, and about the artist and the time and place in which it was created. The portraits are shown chronologically, and the changing nature of the subject can be seen as time rolls forward over centuries to the present day. From Holbein, Rubens and Rembrandt to Gauguin, Chagall and Picasso, over forty portraits make up this collection of artists" children. A fascinating combination of biographical anecdote and art history, it is also a celebration of the bond between parent and child. Filippo Lipp Hans Holbein the Younger Peter Paul Rubens Jacob Jordaens Rembrandt van Rijn John Dwight Antoine Coypel Thomas Gainsborough Martin Drolling John Alexander Gilfillan John Everett Millais Edouard Manet Laurence Alma-Tadema Camille Pissarro Claude Monet Paul Gauguin Paul Cezanne Martial Caillebotte Carl Larsson Odilon Redon William Nicholson Thomas Cooper Gotch Henri Matisse Elizabeth Forbes Pierre-Auguste Renoir Maurice Denis Augustus John Arthur Rackham Alphonse Mucha Marc Chagall Pablo Picasso Otto Dix Jacob Epstein Alexander Rodchenko Norman Rockwell Mervyn Peake Alice Neel Lucian Freud David Lenz