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Van Gogh: Sunflowers by Martin Gayford 9781857097290
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $48.26'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was... -
Venice: City of Pictures by Martin Gayford 9780500022665
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.41A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as 'La Serenissima' - a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers... -
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $24.86David Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the... -
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney Martin Gayford 9780500298350
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.68The bestselling book of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as they explore the nature of creativity. David Hockney's exuberant work is highly praised and widely loved,... -
Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy by Martin Gayford
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A burst of springtime joy' Daily Telegraph 'A springboard for ideas about art, space, time and light' The Times 'Lavishly illustrated' Guardian David Hockney reflects... -
How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters) Martin Gayford 9780500027424
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $53.03A Times Book of the Year 'This is as clear a piece of writing about the experience of looking at a great painting as I have ever read ... Gayford seems to have seen everything and thought deeply... -
Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their... -
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 2018'If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If you are not, read it.' - Grey Gowrie, Financial Times 'All the good stories, and... -
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van... -
Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Art critic Martin Gayford, author of The Yellow House, brings the Regency period to life in Constable in Love: Love, Landscape and the Making of a Great Painter his account of the life of English... -
Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford 9780141031965 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.27Art critic Martin Gayford, author of The Yellow House, brings the Regency period to life in Constable in Love: Love, Landscape and the Making of a Great Painter his account of the life of English... -
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux 9780571365937
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $45.53A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial... -
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux 9780571365944
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED... -
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910 by Sue Roe
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.07'Heady, lively, engaging...brings Montmartre's heyday back to life' Sunday Times'Brilliant' GuardianThe real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the... -
Gainsborough: A Portrait James Hamilton 9781474601061
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.98** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest... -
Constable: A Portrait by James Hamilton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.07ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2023'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times'A biography as rich with... -
A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $31.98'I won't read a more interesting book all year... utterly fascinating' A. N. Wilson, Sunday Times 'Enormously good-humoured and entertaining... Hockney asks big questions about the nature of... -
A Memoir of Vincent van Gogh by Jo van Gogh-Bonger 9781606065600
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.17The general outlines of Vincent van Gogh's life-the early difficulties in Holland and Paris, the revelatory impact of the move to Provence, the attacks of madness and despair that led to his... -
A History of Pictures for Children by David Hockney
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.73Winner of the prestigious BolognaRagazzi New Horizons Award 2019A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we... -
The Book of the Wind: The Representation of the Invisible by Alessandro Nova 9780773538337
RRP: $149.10Booksplease Price: $118.86The wind - a natural phenomenon both salutary and injurious - has inspired myths, literary texts, and works of art in every era and place. The Book of the Wind offers a contemporary and original... -
The World According to David Hockney by David Hockney 9780500027042
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05A collection of legendary British artist David Hockney's insights into art, life, nature, creativity and much more. 'I've always been a looker ... that's what artists do' This anthology of... -
Be a Super Awesome Artist: 20 art challenges inspired by the masters Henry Carroll 9781786277626
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Become a super-awesome artist with this fantastic new book. Using real examples of art for inspiration, this great book features 20 exciting art challenges to help you create your own masterpieces... -
Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look Susanna Avery-Quash 9781857097221
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.66A celebration of the National Gallery’s history of collaborating with contemporary artists, with a particular focus on David Hockney This book celebrates how artists have responded in a host of ways... -
Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy by David Hockney
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.59A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'We have lost touch with nature, rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time be over and then what? What have we learned?... The only real... -
Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World by Philip Hook
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Breakfast at Sotheby's is a wry, intimate, truly revealing exploration of how art acquires its financial value, from Philip Hook, a senior director at Sotheby's'Reading it is like participating in a... -
Making a Great Exhibition: (Books for Kids, Art for Kids, Art Book) Doro Globus 9781644230497
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $23.31"It never occurred to me while growing up that art is an industry involving countless jobs, so if this book helps shed light to just one kid that it is a viable career option, then it has done its... -
Art School (in a book): A future artist's guide to contemporary art by Russell Tovey 9781510231412
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $22.20An exciting introduction to the world of contemporary art for young creatives from the makers of hit podcast Talk Art, actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament.Do you love art and want to... -
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Hamilton
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles... -
The Quentin Blake Book by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.41A fully illustrated overview of the life and work of the universally loved Quentin Blake, released ahead of the artist's 90th birthday in December 2022. Quentin Blake is an artist who has charmed... -
Destination Art (Art Essentials) by Amy Dempsey
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Manifesting in a broad range of media, from massive land and environmental works and extensive sculpture parks to giant public murals, 'destination art' demands to be found and met in its own space... -
Hockney's Pictures David Hockney 9780500297407
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $55.82A celebration of sixty years of extraordinary creativity. 'A compelling narrative of the workings of a curious, intelligent, visually inventive mind at work' Art Quarterly 'From between the covers... -
Barcelona Robert Hughes 9781860468247
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75"Robert Hughes is probably the best - and certainly the most accessible - art critic in the world . . . in Barcelona his art-historical and his sociological talents converge in what is often a... -
Paula Rego: The Art of Story by Deryn Rees-Jones 9780500021378
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $136.82Paula Rego is an artist of astonishing power with a unique and unforgettable aesthetic. Taking its cues from the artist, this fascinating study invites us to reflect on the complexities of... -
Constable's Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons Susan Owens 9780500028896
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13'A marvellous book' Ali Smith Shaped by the cycle of the natural world, a fresh look at the life and work of John Constable to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth in 2026. As exhilarating... -
Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really happened on that dark winter night?In Van Gogh's Ear, Bernadette Murphy... -
Barcelona by Robert Hughes 9781860468247 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $5.04"Robert Hughes is probably the best - and certainly the most accessible - art critic in the world . . . in Barcelona his art-historical and his sociological talents converge in what is often a... -
Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting by Catherine Lampert
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.59Born in Berlin in 1931 to Jewish parents, the eight-year-old Auerbach was sent to England in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime. His parents stayed behind and died in a concentration camp in 1943. Now in... -
The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world and the darling of the 'Salon' - that all important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris. ... -
Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists Simon Martin 9781869827755
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $43.66The natural world as seen through the eyes of British artists including Eric Ravilious, Clare Leighton, and John Piper Since its publication in 1789, Gilbert White's Natural History and Antiquities...