Brilliant Destiny: The Age of Augustus John

by David Boyd Haycock

Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best British draughtsman since the Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the British ' Post-Impressionists' . Such was his importance that Wyndham Lewis called the ten years up to 1914 ' the Augustan decade' . Virginia Woolf wrote in 1921 that ' The age of Augustus John was dawning' . Handsome, unconventional and full of brilliant promise and Bohemian spirit, John was the man almost every young British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848226578
• ISBN13: 9781848226579
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.7"