Item #170059 The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set). Graham Reynolds.
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)

The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (2-Volume set)

Yale University Press, 1996. Hardbound. Red cloth in color illustrated dustjackets. Volume 1: Text: xxiii, 234 pp. Volume 2: Plates: xxv pp, 250 color, 837 bw 'plates' (perhaps an average of two to a page). VG/VG small tear at base of one dj. In cardboard slipcase. Item #170059
ISBN: 9780300031515

A beautiful set, virtually new. John Constable, one of the most beloved of British painters, is renowned for his poetic approach to nature and his extraordinary use of broken color. In this beautiful two-volume set, the dean of Constable scholars, Graham Reynolds, discusses all the paintings and drawings the artist produced between 1790 and1816, both before and after his breakthrough into the original style that is the basis of his fame. Together with Reynolds`s award-winning The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (1984), the books are a catalogue raisonneâ of this artist`s monumental oeuvre.The two volumes, one of text and one of plates, describe and reproduce 1370 paintings and drawings in chronological order. They begin with Constable`s juvenilia and tentative experiments before he went to London in 1799 to become a professional artist. Next are some lesser-known worksâ elegant figure studies of girls, Constable`s first portraits, and his Lake District watercolors. Finally are the works after 1808â Dedham Vale: morning, Flatford Mill from a Lock on the Stour, A Summerland, The Stour Valley and Dedham Village, and the recently rediscovered The Wheatfieldâ works that made Constable a major force in British landscape painting. The volumes also include Constable`s numerous sketches of his homeland around East Bergholt and Dedham from this period, drawings on which he based his later masterpieces. An appendix records and reproduces, as addenda to The Later Paintings and Drawings, 94 works produced between 1817 and 1836 that have come to light since those books were published.

OCLC: 10948407

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