Eileen Gray: The Private Painter

by Peter Adam, Andrew Lambirth

Overview

Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning 80 years she 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848221833
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	10/28/2015
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	8.98(w) x 10.43(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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), Outlines: David Hockney (1997), and Art of the Third Reich (1992).Andrew Lambirth has written extensively on 20th-century British art, and his books include Roger Hilton, Kitaj, L.S. Lowry: Conversation Pieces, John Hoyland, John Armstrong, Rose Hilton: Something to Keep the Balance and Margaret Mellis.