Christopher
Le Brun: The Speech of Light, Paintings 2013-2024
(New York: Rizzoli, September 2025)
One of Britain’s most influential living artists, Le Brun emerged as a
significant rising star in the British art scene during the 1980s and continues
to create works that are a celebration of light, depth, and the expressive
potential of paint. This book presents an in-depth exploration of a discrete
and compelling body of work over the past ten years.
Le Brun’s large-scale paintings are characterized by their lyrical abstraction and often reference myth, history, and literature using a rich palette and expressive brushwork. Eachpage of this sumptuous book reveals the artist’s dynamic use of color, texture, and form, capturing the essence of his creative process and the emotions embedded in his canvases, some light in touch and some involving dense accretions of paint. Featuring an extensive plates section of full-color reproductions, including five expanding foldouts, a critical narrative by art historian Matthew Holman, and a reference section of illustrated footnotes that shed light on Le Brun’s inspirations, this book provides a comprehensive look at one of Britain’s most beloved artists.
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Frank Auerbach
(Berlin: Michael Werner Galerie, May 2025)
This monograph accompanies the first posthumous retrospective of Frank Auerbach’s work, spanning six decasdes of paintings and drawings by the German-born, British painter. The monograph was edited by the prominent art historian and long-time sitter and friend of Auerbach, Catherine Lampert, and the exhibition represents the first exhibition of his work in the German capital, the city in which he was born and left for England in 1939. Matthew Holman’s essay is entitled ‘Torn from the Book of Life’.
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