Augustus John: A Biography. Vol 1: The Years of Innocence. Vol 2: The Years of Experience.
Inbunden bok. Heinemann. XVI, 415; XVIII, 263 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. Skyddsomslag i gott skick. 1974-1975. Two volumes. Publisher's cloth, dust-jackets. Illustrated. For a period Augustus John was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning." By the 1920s he was Britain's leading portrait painter and painted many distinguished contemporaries, including Dylan Thomas, W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, and many others. (L)
