THE CATALOGUE OF THE LAST MAJOR LIFETIME EXHIBITION OF HERON’S WORK, EDITED BY DAVID SYLVESTER,
WITH AN INTERVIEW BY MARTIN GAYFORD AND AN ESSAY BY A.S. BYATT
HERON, Patrick – (Anthony) David Bernard SYLVESTER (editor). Patrick Heron. Edited by David Sylvester with an Essay by A.S. Byatt and an Interview by Martin Gayford. London: Westerham Press for Tate Gallery Publishing Limited, 1998.
Quarto (296 x 233mm), pp. 192. Numerous colour and monochrome illustrations in the text after Heron et al., some full-page. Original colour-printed wrappers with French flaps reproducing Heron’s ‘Vertical Light’. (Extremities minimally rubbed and bumped, very light mark on fore-edges.) A very good, clean copy.
First edition. The catalogue Patrick Heron was published to accompany the major exhibition of works by Heron (1920-1999) at the Tate Gallery from 25 June to 6 September 1998. ‘In this catalogue […] over seventy paintings by the artist are reproduced as colour plates. These works range from small oils to enormous canvases: selected by David Sylvester, the curator of the exhibition, they trace the developments in Heron’s style over sixty years. David Sylvester introduces the catalogue, which also includes an illuminating interview in which Heron – whose art criticism on both sides of the Atlantic has been influential for over a half a century – discusses his work and artistic beliefs with Martin Gayford. A.S. Byatt, a deep admirer of Heron’s work, provides a vivid personal response to his art [in her essay ‘A Riddle Around the Edges of Vision’], while a selection of significant earlier essays on Heron’s painting provides a wider view’ (wrapper blurb).
This exhibition, which opened less than a year before the artist’s death, was the last major solo exhibition of Heron’s work to take place during his lifetime.
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