Yevonde : life and colour / by Clare Freestone
2023, First Edition. London : National Portrait Gallery. Fine copy in illustrated boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Well-preserved overall. Item #473765
ISBN: 9781855145634
Physical description; 240 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm. Notes; Published to accompany the exhibition Yevonde: Life and Colour, National Portrait Gallery, London, 22 June to 15 October 2023; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 4 November 2023 to 14 April 2024. Exhibition sponsored by CHANEL. Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-231). Contents; Director's foreword / Nicholas Cullinan -- A note from Chanel / Yana Peel -- Yevonde: true original / Clare Freestone -- Yevonde in print / Lucinda Gosling -- Studio -- Goddess of photography: Yevonde's self-portraits / Magdalene Keaney -- Yevonde & Vivex: The 1930s in colour / Pamela Glasson Roberts -- Colour -- Royal patronage -- Yevonde's "Goddesses" / Lizzie Broadbent -- Beyond beauty & myth: Goddesses made real / Lizzie Broadbent -- RMS Queen Mary -- 'A sprinkling of still-life phantasies' / Georgia Atienza -- Modern women: Domesticity & allure / Clare Freestone -- Solarisation / Clare Freestone -- 'Some distinguished women' -- 'Only a future!' Yevonde's legacy & influence / Susanna Brown -- Chronology. Subjects; Yevonde, Madame (1893-1975) Exhibitions. Portrait photography Exhibitions. Photography, Artistic Exhibitions. Freestone, Clare. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain).
Price: €60.00