Marrin's Bookshop

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4to. 9.25 x 9 inches. 144 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy. Illustrated in colour and black and white, including photographs. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. A well illustrated study of the life and art of Bernard Meninsky (1891-1950), 'central to the great generation of Anglo-Jewish artists.' It includes the dark atmospheric landscapes of the 1920s and 30s, the tender mother and child series and the visionary pastoral world of his later years. By John Russell Taylor (1935-2025), Art and Film Critic of The Times and author of numerous books on the cinema and theatre.