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20/08/2025

SUMMER SALE! Make the most of our sale on books on Homes and Gardens by using code Homes40 for 40% off from 1 August until 1 September 2025.

For prime home inspiration, check out 'Nick Eldridge: Unique Houses' by Dominic Bradbury, which provides a comprehensive survey of the wide-ranging urban and rural houses designed by Manser Medal winning architect Nick Eldridge, illustrated with over 100 colour photographs, as well as over 50 plans and sections.
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Pictured: Greenways, Coombe Park, Kingston. View from the south with the natural swimming pond in the foreground. Image courtesy of Nick Eldridge Architects.

19/08/2025

COMING SOON TO THE ILLUMINATING WOMEN ARTISTS SERIES:
🎨 Josefa de Óbidos
📚 by Carmen Ripollés
✏️ The first monograph on the artist to be published in English, this book provides a long-overdue introduction to the life and work of Portuguese painter Josefa de Ayala, known as Josefa de Óbidos (1630-1684). One of the best known and most celebrated artists of the Portuguese baroque, she is the only early modern female artist to be credited with representing the art of a whole period and a geographical area. Her paintings encompass a diversity of religious and secular subjects in a variety of formats, from portraits to still lifes; small oils on copper to large church altarpieces; seemingly ‘feminine’ themes revolving around the Virgin Mary and female saints to gruesome portrayals of the Passion of Christ.

🎨Maria Sibylla Merian
📚 by Catherine Powell-Warren
✏️ In 1679, the commentator Joachim von Sandrart described Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) as a painter who had perfected the art of the miniature and of flower painting, a high and deserved honour. Posthumously, however, it is Merian’s status as an entomologist or naturalist that has garnered the most attention; she has not received her due as an artist. This book remedies this situation. Using Merian’s hundreds of extant watercolours and book illustrations as sources, in combination with her surviving correspondence and with contemporary art treatises, Catherine Powell-Warren recognizes the artistic contributions of Maria Sibylla Merian, and situates them in their socio-cultural and creative context.

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Co-published in North America with Getty Publications


Art Herstory Notes Getty Publications

18/08/2025

'Towards the Ethical Art Museum' by Gareth Harris is published today!!

It is a pithy, up-to-date analysis of the ethical dilemmas facing art museums in the post-Covid age and in the wake of anti-discrimination protests, offering examples of best practice.

'Gareth Harris writes with great knowledge and insight about our current cultural landscape.' – Will Gompertz, Deborah Loeb Brice Director, Sir John Soane's Museum

Published in the Hot Topics in the Art World series in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art.
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17/08/2025

Surround yourself with the comforts of home and garden... Our Summer Sale, Homes & Gardens collection features books on cottages and country houses, from Edwardian style to Modernism and beyond. Use code Homes40 for 40% off from 1 August until 1 September 2025.

The book '20/20: Twenty Great Houses of the Twentieth Century' by John Pardey is an account of modern architecture through the prism of 20 of the most influential houses built over the past century. John Pardey examines the ground-breaking ideas, sensitivity to detailing and materials in houses designed by the likes of Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Giuseppe Terragni, Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames and Oscar Niemeyer...

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Image: Gwathmey House by Charles Gwathmey, Colour photo of exterior. Photograph ©Scott Frances/OTTO.

16/08/2025

Get 40% off books on Homes and Gardens in our Summer Sale!! The collection features books on cottages and country houses, from Edwardian to Modernist and beyond. Use code Homes40 for 40% off until 1 September 2025.

'Mounton House: The Birth and Rebirth of an Edwardian Country Home' by Helena Gerrish is one of the books in our discounted Homes and Gardens Collection...

The most ambitious project of Henry Avray Tipping, the influential architectural editor of Country Life, Mounton was a new country house and garden, designed without limitations of expense to be the perfect expression of his immense knowledge of history, architecture and horticulture. All was designed to impress a distinguished social circle. However, within weeks of its completion, the Great War started. The world of English country-house living changed irrevocably, so Tipping never saw his hopes for the house come to fruition.

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Image: The Diana statue seen from the water garden. Photograph: John Campbell (Room of Light).

15/08/2025

COMING SOON! Take a sneak peek inside the new monograph on DAVID REMFRY by Kathryn Johnson with contributions by Chloe Aridjis, Hettie Judah, Rosalind McKever, Gerardine Mulcahy-Parker and Kathleen Soriano

British artist David Remfry RA (b.1942) is perhaps best known for his large-scale watercolours, often of people dancing, as well as his landscapes of New York and his images of residents and friends painted and drawn during his twenty years living and working at the Chelsea Hotel, New York City. This book discusses these aspects of Remfry's work, and more, considering the full breadth of Remfry's inspirations and his important artistic contribution, in the first in-depth account of his career to date.

📯 'David Remfry RA is one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary painters; an observer of both individual subjects and social worlds. Over six decades, he has studied details of gesture, expression and dress, as well as the interior settings in which our daily or nocturnal lives play out. This comprehensive volume charts the evolution and breadth of output, confirming him as a painter not only of beguiling appearances but of human psychology in its myriad shades.'
– James Cahill, author, critic and art historian

📯 ‘David Remfry’s absolute lust for life is palpable in everything he does. But just as life is complex, so is David’s work: joyful and soulful in equal measure, but always beautiful, each stroke of his brush a cornucopia of what it feels like to be alive.’
– Alan Cu***ng, actor, writer and presenter

14/08/2025

British artist Mary Fedden (1915-2012) was born on this day, 14 August, in 1915 in Bristol. Fedden worked in oil, watercolour and gouache, drawing, illustration, collage and printmaking. She lived, worked and travelled with her husband and fellow artist Julian Trevelyan from 1949 to 1988.

The beautiful book 'Mary Fedden: Enigmas and Variations' by Christopher Andreae is now back in stock in paperback. Get your copy direct from www.lundhumphries.com now!

Images: Mary Fedden - Black Cat and Plant 1982, Signed Giclée Limited Edition of 75. Photo of paperback book.

13/08/2025

Booking now! Join artist Caroline Walker and author Alex Hyde in conversation to celebrate the launch of the new book Caroline Walker: Mothering.

This beautifully illustrated monograph is published by Lund Humphries to coincide with the major solo exhibition of Walker’s work of the same name, on show at The Hepworth Wakefield until late-October.

Caroline Walker: Mothering is edited by Eleanor Clayton, The Hepworth Wakefield’s Head of Collection and Exhibitions.

In Conversation: Caroline Walker and Alex Hyde
Saturday 6 September
1.30 - 2.30pm
Tickets from £7

Book now at https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/in-conversation-caroline-walker-and-alex-hyde/

Image: Caroline Walker, Night Feed II, 2022, Oil on board, 44 x 35.7cm (17 3/8 x 14 1/8in). © Caroline Walker. Courtesy the Artist; GRIMM, Amsterdam/New York/London; Ingleby, Edinburgh; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London/New York. Photo: Peter Mallet

13/08/2025

COMING SOON! 'Razzle Dazzle 'Em: New Yorker Profiles of Show-Biz Legends' by John Lahr will be published on 10th September... find out more:

In Razzle Dazzle ‘Em, John Lahr, the lead theatre critic for The New Yorker for 21 years and a multi-award-winning biographer, captures the essence of some of Hollywood’s most influential actors and directors. This compelling collection of pen portraits offers a rare glimpse into the minds of th...

13/08/2025

Make the most of our Summer Sale on books on Homes and Gardens! Use code Homes40 for 40% off from 1 August until 1 September 2025.

For prime home inspiration, check out 'Nick Eldridge: Unique Houses' by Dominic Bradbury, which provides a comprehensive survey of the wide-ranging urban and rural houses designed by Manser Medal winning architect Nick Eldridge, illustrated with over 100 colour photographs, as well as over 50 plans and sections.
Find out more and order at https://www.lundhumphries.com/collections/homes-and-gardens

Image: House in Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London. Image courtesy of Nick Eldridge Architects

12/08/2025

Make the most of our Summer Sale on books on Homes and Gardens! Surround yourself with the comforts of home and garden... the collection features books on cottages and country houses, from Edwardian style to Modernism and beyond. Use code Homes40 for 40% off from 1 August until 1 September 2025.

'Here We Are, Home At Last: The Architecture of Nithurst' by Adam Richards with contributions by Jeremy Musson, Geoff Dyer, Takero Shimazaki and Corinna Dean, is the story of a much-lauded, multi-award-winning house designed by the architect for his family, and situated in the picturesque South Downs National Park... prime home inspiration!
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Image: Nithurst, Sussex, designed by Adam Richards Architects - View of the Kitchen featuring: Clouds by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec on the rear wall; Untitled, 2004 a photograph of a particle accelerator by the artist and sculptor Keith Wilson; and Aperture Painting; Part Of Some Of by HelenA Pritchard.

10/08/2025

Get 40% off books on Homes and Gardens in our Summer Sale!! The collection features books on cottages and country houses, from Edwardian to Modernist and beyond. Use code Homes40 for 40% off until 1 September 2025.

Greta Magnusson Grossman (1906-1999) was a prolific designer working within the male-dominated world of mid-century modern design, whose status and influence has been largely ignored. Grossman was the ultimate polymath - an industrial designer, interior designer and architect working within two fascinating contexts: Scandinavia and North America.

'Greta Magnusson Grossman: Modern Design from Sweden to California' by Harriet Harriss and Naomi House catalogues and emphasises the significance of her contribution to interior design: making the connections between ideas she tested at the scale of the product within the interior environment. It positions her contribution to interior design in relation to the canon of the genres to which she contributed, her discipline and the emerging canon of women designers — who are only now being recognised, whilst considering her enduring legacy upon the world of design today.

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Image: Interior of the Grossman House, 1659 Waynecrest Drive, Beverly Hills, 1948–49 Photo: Julius Schulman (courtesy of the Greta Magnusson Grossman design records and papers located at R & Company, New York)