Brilliant Destiny Age of Augustus Johhb |
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Author:
| Haycock, David Boyd |
ISBN: | 978-1-84822-657-9 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2023 |
Publisher: | Lund Humphries Publishers, Limited
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $59.99 |
Book Description:
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Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best British draughtsman since the Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the British 'Post-Impressionists'. Such was his importance that Wyndham Lewis called the ten years up to 1914 'the Augustan decade'. Virginia Woolf wrote in 1921 that 'The age of Augustus John was dawning'. Handsome, ......
Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best British draughtsman since the Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the British 'Post-Impressionists'. Such was his importance that Wyndham Lewis called the ten years up to 1914 'the Augustan decade'. Virginia Woolf wrote in 1921 that 'The age of Augustus John was dawning'. Handsome, ......