David Remfry
Watercolour
James Russell author Irving Sandler author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Royal Academy of Arts
Published:14th Apr '22
Should be back in stock very soon
Over his long and successful career David Remfry MBE RA RWS has achieved a mastery of watercolour that few have matched. Unusually for the medium, he works on a large scale and often focuses on people, exploring the dance hall and the nightclub in breathtaking images that are at once beautiful and edgy.
This book is the first full-length monograph devoted to the artist's watercolours. Its author, James Russell, is well known for his writing on 20th-century British artists. Russell brings his scholarship, humour and fascination for people and their lives to his study of Remfry’s career, tracing the evolution of a remarkable talent, looking in depth at the most significant works and placing Remfry in the context of both the British watercolour tradition and international contemporary painting. This is at once a glorious art book and an intimate portrait of city life.
Having spent 20 years living and working at the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York, Remfry has a following on both sides of the Atlantic. New Yorkers – often in party mode – feature in many of his watercolours, and his recollections of people and places add colour to the text.
"Remfry found potential subjects around every corner of the Chelsea…"I love people, I love their stories. When I’m painting them, they talk to me like I’m their therapist."" - The Guardian
ISBN: 9781912520886
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1090g
160 pages