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Johan Zoffany: Artist and Adventurer

Released: November 30, 2009

Published in December 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the artist’s death. Paul Holberton Publishing is pleased to announce the first comprehensive biography of the portrait painter Johan Zoffany, one of the leading figures of 18th-century British art. Illustrated in full colour with approximately 250 works, many from private collections, this is a major new study of an artist of great importance in his day but largely ignored by current art historical literature. In his early years in England, Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was as much in demand as a portrait artist as Sir Joshua Reynolds and ...

Frank Auerbach (born 1931) Shell Building Site from the Thames, 1959 Oil on board, 152.4 x 121.9 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

FRANK AUERBACH: LONDON BUILDING SITES 1952–62

Released: November 10, 2009

This exhibition explores an extraordinary group of paintings of post-war London building sites by Frank Auerbach (born 1931), one of Britain’s greatest living artists. The series of fourteen major paintings was produced during the first decade of Auerbach’s career and gives a remarkable account of his early artistic development. It was during this period that Auerbach emerged alongside Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud as part of a powerful new generation of British painters. Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites 1952–62, on view at The Courtauld Gallery from 16 October 2009 to 17 January 20...