Christopher Wood: A Painter Between Two CornwallsTate Gallery Publishing, 1996 - 64 pages Born in Liverpool in 1901, Christopher Wood spent most of his artistic career in France. In Paris he lived a whirlwind existence among the high society of the 1920s, getting to know Cocteau, Picasso, and Diaghliev, all of whom admired his talent. Yet he often longed for solitude, and it was in the quiet coastal towns of Cornwall and Brittany that he painted his best work. This publication looks in depth at the artist's life and work. Among the 40 works illustrated and discussed are many of the most important paintings that Wood produced before his tragic and dramatic death at the age of 29. |
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Alfred Wallis architecture artists August beach Ben Nicholson Bérard Breton Brittany Brittany 1930 Oil catalogue Cedric Morris centre Christopher Wood church Cingria City Art Galleries cm Private Collection Cocteau colour composition Concarneau Cornouaille Cornwall depicts Diaghilev Dieppe Douarnenez and Tréboul drawing exhibition Fête figures fishing boat foreground France Francis Rose Françoise Steel-Coquet Froska Munster FS-C Gallery and Museum Gandarillas gouache grey houses Hôtel Ty-Mad Kahn Kettle's Yard landscape Letter from Wood letter to Winifred Lighthouse London lovely Maurice Sachs Max Jacob Mousehole Musée des Beaux-Arts Newlyn Oil on board Oil on canvas opium painter palette Paris Parisian Penzance photograph Picasso picture Ploaré Port Rhu portrait postcard Quay quayside Quimper René Crevel sailors sails Saint-Jean scene sense shows Sleeping Fisherman stay studio Tate Gallery tion town travels Tréboul 1930 Oil Tréboul and Douarnenez wall Winifred Nicholson woman Wood's painting wrote