Modern Art Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Lost Gardens of London on 8 October 2024.

Written by the award-winning historian and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Lost Gardens of London celebrates the evanescence of London’s vast and varied garden legacy. From private gardens and humble allotments to extravagant palace grounds and pleasure gardens, the book explores the ephemeral gardens of the capital, dating from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century.

In this evocative book, Longstaffe-Gowan reminds us just how precious gardened green space is, revealing how gardens have contributed to the quality of life and well‑being of city-dwellers for hundreds of years.

The publication of this book accompanies an eponymous exhibition at the Garden Museum, London, curated by the author. The exhibition, the first in over twenty years to focus on the history of London’s gardens, will run from 23 October 2024 to 2 March 2025.

To pre-order Lost Gardens of London via Yale University Press, please click here

Modern Art Press is pleased to announce that Gillian Malpass, formerly art and architecture publisher at Yale University Press London, will succeed Toby Treves as CEO of Modern Art Press from 1 April 2023. Gillian Malpass will extend and develop MAP’s publication of catalogues raisonnés and other books and catalogues in the field of modern British art. Gillian has already been involved designing and editing several of MAP’s titles, working with Christopher Lloyd on Picasso and the Art of Drawing and Matisse and the Joy of Drawing; Christopher White on Van Dyck and the Art of Portraiture; Sue Sloman on Gainsborough in London, as well as designing Margaret Garlake’s Artist’s Making Landscapes in Post-war Britain and the late, great Jon Whiteley’s final catalogue, Nineteenth-century French Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum. Toby Treves is leaving to set up his own imprint, Art Publishing Inc.

Modern Art Press is pleased to announce that Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints has been shortlisted for in the ‘Scholarly, Academic and Reference Book’ category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2022.

Modern Art Press is delighted to announce the arrival of the first copies of Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints by Toby Treves. For a preview inside the book, please click ‘see spreads’ beneath the cover picture here. The catalogue will be published in May 2022 and distributed by Yale University Press; for pre-orders, please visit the Yale website.

Modern Art Press is delighted to announce the publication of Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings by Andrea Rose. It is the only comprehensive book on the oeuvre of one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. Kossoff’s friend and colleague Frank Auerbach has described it as ‘…a marvellous piece of book production, perfect in every way and – clearly – the result of extreme devotion. It will secure Leon’s place in the canon of English painting.’ Coinciding with a retrospective at Annely Juda Fine Art, the book has been well-received in many quarters. Now Modern Art Press is pleased to be hosting ‘The Art of Leon Kossoff’, an evening at Hatchards, Piccadilly, chaired by Sir John Tusa with a conversation between Andrea Rose and novelist Howard Jacobson. Tickets available here.

Modern Art Press is pleased to announce that it will be publishing the catalogue raisonné of the paintings and reliefs of Ben Nicholson. The catalogue will be written by Dr Rachel Smith with Dr Lee Beard. Nicholson is one of the leading British artists of the twentieth century so a complete catalogue of his work has been long anticipated; the book will be an important contribution to the study of modern British art.