Whyte’s auction of Irish & International art promises to deliver another exciting opportunity for collectors to acquire rare artworks of outstanding quality and enduring value. Welcome to a rollicking ...
Augustus John offers fine sketches of world leaders but it is the portraits of women that will captivate the public London, Monday. One of the many piquant circumstances of the Peace Conference in ...
Once it was the habit to glorify Augustus John and ignore his sister Gwen. Later it became the fashion to praise Gwen and denigrate Augustus. The time for victimising Gwen and demonising Augustus has ...
As recently as 1974, scarcely a decade after his death, the artist Augustus John received the kind of tribute reserved for a great British national treasure: a two-volume life by the premier ...
Plotted with all the verve of a great Victorian novel, this account of artist siblings Gwen and Augustus (“Gus”) John offers a fascinating survey of the lives of both as they chart different but ...
The English country home where Bohemian Welsh artist Augustus John defied Victorian respectability by living in a “throuple” with two women at the turn of the 20th century has hit the market in Essex, ...
Twenty-two paintings and drawings by Augustus John that belonged to the Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor are to be included in Christie’s Impressionist and Modern art sales, which go on view in ...
Augustus John was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse. He ...
Whyte’s auction of Irish & International art promises to deliver another exciting opportunity for collectors to acquire rare artworks of outstanding quality and enduring value.