Navigation

Eileen Gray: The Private Painter

Availability: In Stock
ISBN: 9781848221833
AuthorAdam, Peter
Pub Date28/10/2015
BindingHardback
Pages104
CountryGBR
Dewey759.2915
Quick overview Irish-born designer Eileen Gray 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. This book deals with his life and work.
€40.31

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.
This 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.

*
*
*
Product description

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.
This 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.

Customers who bought this item also bought

Driver Theory Test Book : Truck & Bus 2019 ed

Dtt RSA Driver Theory
9781916051454
€21.03

Driver Theory Test Book : Cars, Motorcycles & Work Vehicles 2019

DRIVER THEORY
9781999720285
For Candidates taking the exam from 1st June 2019. English Language - Official Driver Theory Test Questions and Answers Car, Motorcycles and Works Vehicle June 2019 Edition.
€21.05

A Whole New Plan for Living - Achieving Balance and Welness in a Changing World

Lucey, Jim
9781529345650
The comprehensive and powerful new book from renowned psychiatrist Jim Lucey.
€17.13