Eileen Gray : the private painter / [essays by Peter Adam and Andrew Lambirth].

Main entry:

Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976, artist.

Title & Author:

Eileen Gray : the private painter / [essays by Peter Adam and Andrew Lambirth].

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries and Osborne Samuel, 2015.

Description:

104 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
This book accompanies an exhibition held at the Osborne Samuel Gallery in London from 14 October-17 November 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eileen Gray : a lifelong business / Andrew Lambirth -- Eileen Gray as an artist / Peter Adam.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781848221833 (hardcover : alk. paper) (hardcover)
1848221835 (hardcover : alk. paper) (hardcover)

Subject:

Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976 Criticism and interpretation.
Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976, artist.
Gray, Eileen (1878-1976).
Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976.
21.42 history of photographic art.
21.22 history of drawing.
Art and Design.
Konstnärer 1878-1976 Irland sekelskiftet 1900.
Ireland.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Adam, Peter. Eileen Gray as an artist.
Lambirth, Andrew, 1959- Eileen Gray.
Osborne Samuel (Gallery), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296026
Call No.: BIB 242404
Status: Available

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