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Book synopsis

Over his long and successful career David Remfry MBE RA RWS has achieved a mastery of watercolour that few have matched. Unusually for the medium, he works on a large scale and often focuses on people, exploring the dance hall and the nightclub in breathtaking images that are at once beautiful and edgy.

This book is the first full-length monograph devoted to the artist's watercolours. Its author, James Russell, is well known for his writing on 20th-century British artists. Russell brings his scholarship, humour and fascination for people and their lives to his study of Remfry's career, tracing the evolution of a remarkable talent, looking in depth at the most significant works and placing Remfry in the context of both the British watercolour tradition and international contemporary painting. This is at once a glorious art book and an intimate portrait of city life.

Having spent 20 years living and working at the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York, Remfry has a following on both sides of the Atlantic. New Yorkers - often in party mode - feature in many of his watercolours, and his recollections of people and places add colour to the text.

Book details

• Full title: David Remfry
• Subtitle: Watercolour
• Author: James Russell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781912520886
• ISBN: 1912520885
• ID: 37619630
• Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts
• Weight: 1092 g
• Dimensions: 247 × 299 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. April 2022

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