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2020/2021 1 Foreword When I started this piece in early March, the number of confirmed Coronavirus infections worldwide had just passed 100,000. Today, as some museums in the UK re-open, the number of confirmed cases worldwide is nearly 11 million, with over half a million deaths across 188 countries. Early March seems like a distant world, with countless lives now ended prematurely, and many families, households, and businesses facing an uncertain future. Phrases like “the new normal”, “socially-distanced”, “Zooming”, “online learning”, “shielding” and “household bubbling” have all now entered our lingua franca. We’ve also learned more about the effects of this terrible disease, how it seems to affect certain communities and age groups more than others, and how it may have existed undetected for many weeks, even months, before the first recorded cases emerged in January. 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WC1R 4BW Registered in England 4885042 All information is correct at time of Dan Giles printing and subject to change by Managing Director D Giles Limited without notice This catalogue is also available to view at: gilesltd.com : Contents New Titles Norman Bluhm 5 Kimono Couture 7 Antony Donaldson 9 Jennifer Bartlett & Pierre Bonnard 11 The Berlin Masterpieces in America 13 Love & Peace 15 Simple Pleasures 17 Constable's White Horse 19 Titian’s Pietro Aretino 20 The Circle and the Line 21 Taft Museum of Art 23 Forces of Nature 25 Simply Brilliant 27 The Adventures of a Narrative Gardener 29 Newport 31 Revealing Krishna 33 Jewels of the Nile 35 Luise Kaish 37 Frank Duveneck 39 Looking Up 41 Aristotle 43 Craft in the Laboratory 45 Seeing Differently 47 Re-announced Beyond Zen 49 Recently Reprinted Collecting with Vision 51 John Singer Sargent 52 Complete List 53 Sales and Distribution 78 Norman Bluhm Metamorphosis Tricia Laughlin Bloom and Jay Grimm The first major retrospective of the work of American abstract expressionist and action painter Norman Bluhm “Art is all the 3,000 years that were created before me. I look for the greatness I can use”—Norman Bluhm An abstract painter of tremendous imagination, Norman Bluhm (1920–1999) was truly transcontinental, involved with the postwar art worlds of both Paris and New York. After serving in World War II, he moved to Florence and then to Paris, where in 1947 he began formal training as a painter and joined a circle of American expatriate artists that included Joan Mitchell, Ed Clark, and Sam Francis. In 1956 Bluhm relocated to New York and became part of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Metamorphosis presents a selection of Bluhm’s visually arresting work produced over five decades (1947–1998), including the monumental late works produced in his studios in upstate New York and Vermont. Presenting two new essays by leading scholars and 88 artworks interspersed with archival photographs and short texts, this monograph also includes a previously unpublished interview with the artist by Paul Cummings, a detailed chronology, and an extensive bibliography. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Norman Bluhm: Metamorphosis at The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, February 11–May 3, 2020 Tricia Laughlin Bloom is curator of American Art at The Newark Museum of Art Jay Grimm is an independent scholar and fine art appraiser based in New York UK£34.95 / US$44.95 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911282-62-4 178 pages 280 × 240 mm (9 ½ × 11 in) Portrait Norman Bluhm 134 colour illustrations Sooty Lady (detail), 1978 In association with The Oil on canvas Newark Museum of Art 193 × 269.2 cm (76 × 106 in) April 2020 The Estate of Norman Bluhm New Titles — 5 Kimono Couture The Beauty of Chiso Vivian Li and Christine D. Starkman Contributions by Monica Bethe, Kikuchi Riyo, Yukio Lippit, Nagasaki Iwao, Nii Rie and Stephanie Su A stunning visual celebration of the kimono as an object of art and an historic emblem of Japanese culture Chiso, a 465-year-old Kyoto-based draper, is one of the oldest and most prestigious kimono-makers operating in Japan today. Kimono Couture highlights Chiso’s textile and design innovations and its unwavering commitment to beauty over the centuries. It showcases fourteen exquisite kimono from Chiso’s collection, including a wedding kimono specially commissioned for Worcester Art Museum, and a kimono designed by Yohji Yamamoto, who has been working with Chiso since the 1990s. An interview with Chiso senior designer Imai Atsuhiro focuses on the commission of the wedding kimono and on Chiso’s mission to combine timeless style with the pressures of fleeting fashion. The authors illuminate the continuing role of kimono in contemporary Japan and discuss Chiso’s network of 600 artisans and the importance of endangered techniques and textile crafts in the 21st century. Included are designs, textiles, archive photographs and of course, glorious images of the kimono themselves. Accompanies an exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum, MA, UK£29.95 / US$34.95 November 7, 2020–January 31, 2021 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911282-66-2 Vivian Li is the Lupe Murchison 112 pages Curator of Contemporary Art at the 279 × 229 mm (9 × 11 in) Dallas Museum of Art Portrait 84 colour illustrations Christine D. Starkman is an independent In association with Worcester Art scholar and guest co-curator at the Museum, Worcester, MA Worcester Art Museum May 2020 Kikuchi Riyo is a senior researcher at Chiso Co., Ltd. the Tokyo National Research Institute for Furisode with Wave and Crane Design Cultural Properties Made for Nishimura Tokuko, the fourteenth Madame Nishimura Yukio Lippit is the Jeffrey T. Chambers and 1938, yūzen-dyeing and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of embroidery on woven silk Art and Architecture at Harvard University 171 × 128 cm (67 5/16 × 50 3/8 in) New Titles — 7 Antony Donaldson Up to Now Renaud Faroux Foreword by Marco Livingstone The first major retrospective of the work of British Pop Artist Antony Donaldson Although he never studied at the Royal College of Art, Antony Donaldson’s friendships with RCA students Patrick Caulfield, Allen Jones and Peter Phillips put him firmly in the vanguard of the Pop Art movement in London in the 1960s. Born in 1939, Donaldson was chosen in 1964 for the landmark New Generation exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery which included Allen Jones and David Hockney and he became the first Pop Artist to sell his work to the Tate. Like Hockney, Donaldson dreamed of a quiet and relaxed life in southern California and moved to Los Angeles between 1966 and 1968, where he painted daringly simple compositions using saturated colour and sensual forms.