BEAUX BOOKS

Women Artists & Writers

 

Imagine a dinner party. Round the table are Louise Bourgeois, Lee Miller, Elsa Schiaparelli, Nancy and Decca Mitford, Diana Cooper, Joan Mitchell, Kiki de Montparnasse and Gwen John. What a feast it would be.

Now imagine a bookshelf crowded with books on these women artists and writers. It would be a shelf filled with ideas, spirit, creativity and beauty.

With this rather romantic notion in mind, we have created a short catalogue of twenty books by or on women artists and writers of the twentieth century. There are some old favourites and some new discoveries.

 

Women Artists and Writers
 

8 Items
Kim Lim
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The catalogue for an exhibition of the sculpture and prints of Kim Lim.

Look at Hardwick Hall
£60.00

Rena Gardiner's privately-printed guide book to Hardwick Hall.

Louise Bourgeois. Album
£350.00

Louise Bourgeois' creation of a "family photo album", examining the influence of her childhood on her work.

Shocking Life
£140.00

A first edition of Schiaparelli's autobiography with the shocking pink dust jacket.

The Blessing
The Blessing
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Nancy Mitford's semi-autobiographical novel about a Anglo-French marriage.

The Lives of Lee Miller
£120.00

First edition of Antony Penrose's survey of the life and art of the photographer Lee Miller.

The Rainbow Comes and Goes; The Light of Common Day; Trumpets from the Steep [Complete Set]
£170.00

A complete three-volume set of the memoirs of Lady Diana Cooper.

Wrens in Camera
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Lee Miller's war-time photographs of Wrens.