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Eileen Gray - The Private Painter (Hardcover, New edition)
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Eileen Gray - The Private Painter (Hardcover, New edition)
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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 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.
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