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Eileen Gray: The Private Painter
Andrew Lambirth
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Description for Eileen Gray: The Private Painter
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848221833
SKU
V9781848221833
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About Andrew Lambirth
Peter Adam is a filmmaker and writer who was a friend of Eileen Gray for over 15 years. His previous publications include Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work: The Biography (2009). Andrew Lambirth has written extensively on 20th-century British art, and his books include Roger Hilton, John Hoyland, John Armstrong and Margaret Mellis.
Reviews for Eileen Gray: The Private Painter
`an intimate portrait of the woman behind the designer' Antiques Trade Gazette