A Selection of Eighteen Contemporary British Art and Artist Reference Books

18 books

Full listing in catalogue details

11 × 8.25 × 0.25 in (27.9 × 21.0 × 0.6 cm) (largest)

Auction Estimate:$300 - $500

Sale date:June 10 - 24, 2025

Price Realized

$60

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

From the Collection of Dennis Reid

- "British Painting 1952 -1977" (The Royal Academy of Arts London, 1977) inscribed "Dennis Reid" on the flyleaf page; - "Contemporary British Painting" (The British Council, 1963) inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the flyleaf page; - "The Presence of Painting, Aspects of British Abstraction 1957 - 1988" ( The South Bank Centre, 1988) stamped by Dennis Reid (his name in Chinese lettering) on the flyleaf page; -"The British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol.16 No.2" (Oxford University Press, 1976) inscribed "D. Reid" on the opening page; -"The Forgotten Fifties" (Graves Art Gallery, 1984) stamped by Dennis Reid (his name in Chinese lettering) on the flyleaf page; - Picturing Cardiff, Visual Art in the City, Celf Gweledol Yn y Ddinas" (Hugh Adams, 2002) stamped by Dennis Reid (his name in Chinese lettering) on the flyleaf page; - "Tin-pan Valley, A memoir with paintings by Gordon House" (Gordon House and Timothy Prus, 2004) stamped by Dennis Reid (his name in Chinese lettering) on the flyleaf page; - "Ben Nicholson, Fifty Years of His Art" (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1978) inscribed "Dennis Reid" on the flyleaf page; -"Albert Irvin, Works 1984-86" (Gimpel Fils Ltd and Micheal Tooby, 1986) inscribed "Dennis Reid" on the flyleaf page; - "Sixty Paintings for '51" (The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1951) inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the opening page; - “Ben Nicholson, Twelve New Works: June, 1967, Marlborough" (Marlborough Fine Art (London) Limited, 1963) inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the inside cover page; -"Roger Hilton, Works on Paper" (Allen Mackay and George Moppett, 1970) inscribed "D. Reid" on the inside cover page; - "Trevor Bell, A British painter in America" (Ahlander Judd, Leslie and Allys Palladino-Craig, 2003) stamped by Dennis Reid (his name in Chinese lettering) on the flyleaf page; - "William Townsend in Alberta" (Karyn Elizabeth Allen, 1982) stamped by Dennis Reid (his name in Chinese lettering) on the flyleaf page; -"Brain Fielding, New Paintings and Paintings 1960-1983" (Micheal Tooby, Micheal Billam and Brain Fielding, 1987) inscribed "Dennis Reid" on the inside cover page; -"Lucian Freud, Recent Works" (Acquavella Contemporary Art Inc., 2008) stamped by Dennis Reid (his name in Chinese lettering) on the flyleaf page; -"William Johnstone" (Hayward Gallery (London), 1981) inscribed "Dennis Reid" on the flyleaf page; -"John Hoyland, Paintings 1960-67" (Bryan Robertson, 1967) stamped by Dennis Reid (his name in Chinese lettering) on the flyleaf page;