Winifred Nicholson

Artist: Winifred Nicholson 
Author: Christopher Andreae 
Publisher: Lund Humphries 
Date: 2009 
Condition: A good copy, scarce, a small nick to the dust cover by the spine

A very readable monograph filled with illustrations of the paintings of Winifred Nicholson and writings about her world, it was, on publication, a significant step forward in the reappraisal of her work.

Colour and light are the key elements in Winifred's painting and she explored them throughout her long career. Since the 1987 Tate retrospective began to dismantle her unfair categorisation as either just a painter of flowers or Ben Nicholson's wife, it is clear that Winifred's work is in fact a distillation of so much that is central to 'modern British' art - the freedom of execution, the joy of colour, the ideas and emotions evoked by the subjects.

If you aren't familiar with her work, you probably should be, and if you are but haven't read this book, then you know what to do!