Eileen Gray: The Private Painter

*This is NOT a comic! But I've been enjoying stocking art books in the shop too why not

By Peter Adam and Andrew Lambirth. Art by Eileen Gray. Published by Lund Humphries.

Hardcover, 104 pages, Colour, 2015 (featuring art from 1920s-1950s)

Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning nearly 80 years she produced innovative designs for furniture, lighting, carpets, interiors and architecture. Much less well known is that throughout her life as a designer and an architect she never stopped producing small paintings and drawings. This book is the first to focus on Eileen Gray’s important but essentially private work as a painter. Includes 60 colour illustrations. 104pp.