33 of My Favorite Books About Art
Here are three more wonderful books to add to my original list of 30: https://thomasfavorite.com/2014/12/28/30-of-my-favorite-books-about-art/
Duveen: A Life in Art, Meryle Secrest (The University of Chicago Press)
Secrest’s biography of one of the most important art dealers of the twentieth century is intriguing, thorough, and entertaining over 500+ pages. If you are interested in art history, this book chronicles some of the greatest pictures in the world and the role of the art dealer in the most prestigious public and price collections. I was particularly interested in Duveen’s connection to Gainsborough’s Blue Boy at the Huntington Collection in Pasadena, where I am a member. Secrest has also written biographies of Salvador Dalí and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others.
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art, Sue Roe (Penguin Books)
In Montmartre is a group biography of struggling young artists including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brancusi, Gertrude Stein, and others. While expertly describing daily life in Montmartre in the early 1900s, Roe touches on Cubism, Fauvism and Futurism. The book presents several important illustrations including beautiful period photographs.
I Always Loved You, Robin Oliveira (Penguin Books)
This novel outlines Mary Cassatt’s complex relationship with Edgar Degas and the world of Impressionists in Belle Époque Paris (1871 to 1914). Insight into the lives of Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot is also intertwined with the intriguing relationship between Cassatt and Degas.
Thomas
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