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Derwent Lees

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Bringing to light the art and life of Derwent Lees (1884-1931), an Australian painter who studied and taught at the Slade School of Art in the decade preceding and including the First World War, this comprehensive monograph includes a complete catalogue of the artist’s known works, in all media. A precocious talent, within a short career Lees exhibited at the Goupil, Chenil and Alpine Club Galleries, and at the 1913 New York Armory Show. Embedded within Londons art world, he counted Augustus John, J.D. Innes and Ambrose McEvoy as his close friends. Tragically, his promising career was cut short when he was confined to mental asylums from 1919. This publication will provide the first definitive account of Leess life and impressive body of work, so correcting persistent misconceptions about him.

Lynn Davies has lived in Hobart Australia, her and Derwent Lees’ birthplace, and Collioure France for the last 20 years. It was in Collioure, where Lees first experimented with light, tone and colour, that her curiosity about him, his art, and sense of place was ignited. She was formerly an archives and science-humanities collections manager and digital curator, and spent much of her career at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Preface; 1. A Colonial Boy: 1884–1905; 2. The Young Artist: 1905–1906: 3. Mentors and Masters: 1907–1908; 4. A New Beginning: 1908–1910; 5. Confidence in the Southern Light: 1910; 6. Of Mountains and Lakes: 1911; 7. Mastering Colour: 1912; 8. Reaching his Peak: 1913; 9. Marriage and South Again: 1913–1914; 10. Joy and Pain: 1914–1915; 11. The Decline: 1916-1918: 12. The Enclosed World: 1918-1928: 13. End and Aftermath: 1928-1967; Appendix; Landscape and Geolocation; References and Notes; Catalogue Raisonné; Acknowledgements; Image Credits; Index

* First book to chart the creative life and catalogue the works of Derwent Lees, contemporary and friend of Augustus John
* With a catalogue raisonné of oil paintings • and works on paper

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