[Exhibition catalogue:] The Portrait Now.

Gibson (Robin)

[Exhibition catalogue:] The Portrait Now.

Description: FIRST EDITION, numerous colourprinted reproductions of work by various artists, pp. 127, foolscap 8vo, original stiff wrappers with French flaps, the front cover illustrated with a photograph of Glenys Barton's sculpture of Jean Muir (see below), near fine

Publication Details: National Portrait Gallery (NPG), [1993]

Notes: Signed on the title-page by the show's eminent curator, Robin Gibson, along with featured sculptor Glenys Barton, and fashion designer Jean Muir - the subject of Barton's ceramic portrait within the exhibition (also used on the cover).An important exhibition, covering a decade of portraiture - principally in painting and sculpture, but also including video - artists featured include Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Lucian Freud, Maggi Hambling, Richard Hamilton, Howard Hodgkin, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Jeff Koons, Leon Kossoff, Nam June Pai...moreSigned on the title-page by the show's eminent curator, Robin Gibson, along with featured sculptor Glenys Barton, and fashion designer Jean Muir - the subject of Barton's ceramic portrait within the exhibition (also used on the cover).An important exhibition, covering a decade of portraiture - principally in painting and sculpture, but also including video - artists featured include Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Lucian Freud, Maggi Hambling, Richard Hamilton, Howard Hodgkin, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Jeff Koons, Leon Kossoff, Nam June Paik, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tom Phillips, Julian Schnabel, and Andy Warhol. HIDE