Modern Art Press is thrilled to announce the publication of European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty The King by Jonathan Marsden. Published in association with Royal Collection Trust. 

Sculpture is the last major field of European art in the Royal Collection yet to have been published. The product of twenty-five years of work by a leading scholar in the field, this four-volume publication marks the completion of one of the most ambitious stages in the long-term task of cataloguing the Collection, bringing full descriptions and illustrations of some 1,800 works of art into print for the first time.

With an introductory survey covering the relationships between British monarchs and sculptors since the seventeenth century and the impact of sculpture in the interiors of the royal palaces over the same period, the admirably clear and engaging text is essential reading for students of royal collecting. It is accompanied by almost 2,000 illustrations, most of which have been commissioned for this book.

To order European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty the King via Yale University Press, please click here.

Modern Art Press is thrilled to announce the publication of The Art of Royal Travel: Journeys with The King, by the Earl of Rosslyn, Theresa-Mary Morton and Helen Rosslyn. Published in association with Royal Collection Trust. 

In 1985, King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, asked the painter John Ward to accompany him on an official tour to Italy to make an artistic record of the visit. In so doing, he began an inspiring tradition that celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2025, with forty-two different artists having accompanied the King on sixty-nine official tours to ninety-five different countries worldwide.

This book relates the extraordinary stories of these visits and celebrates the work of the tour artists, who ranged from young students still at art school to celebrated artists whose work is exhibited at major galleries. Their recollections are revealed in a series of individual interviews, and their anecdotes, personal reflections and glimpses behind the scenes provide a fascinating insight into the unique essence of life on a royal tour.

The book is both a celebration of the King’s initiative to support and encourage artists and a unique and compelling account of this very special royal tradition. Sumptuously illustrated with some of the many hundreds of works produced by artists who were inspired by the King’s generosity and his unswerving commitment to the arts, the book honours the power of an artist to record what a photograph never can, in the incomparable setting of a royal tour.

An exhibition ‘The King’s Tour Artists’ will be displayed at Buckingham Palace from 10 July–28 September 2025.

To order The Art of Royal Travel via Yale University Press, please click here.

Modern Art Press is delighted to announce the publication of The Uglow Papers by Andrew Lambirth. 

The Uglow Papers is a celebration of Uglow’s art, life and teaching, recounted by those who knew him as friend, colleague or mentor. The book brings together anecdotes and opinions relating to the various decades of his life, from his years as a student in the late 1940s and early 1950s, to his development and maturity as an artist, and to his tragically early death. His life was a full one, devoted primarily to painting and drawing, but also to teaching (mainly at the Slade School of Art) and to spending time with an unexpectedly wide circle of friends.

This is the first major monograph on Uglow. Profusely illustrated, it contains much new material about the artist, his teaching and his friendships. Initiated and edited by Andrew Lambirth, who knew the artist well for the last decade of his life, and with contributions from Frank Auerbach, Sir Paul Smith and Cherie Blair among others, this book sheds new light on Euan Uglow’s life and work and will be an invaluable source of reference for all those interested in modern art.

The Uglow Papers is now available to purchase through Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9781738487820/the-uglow-papers/ 

It’s finally here! Our advance copy of the 4-volume catalogue raisonné of oil paintings by Lucian Freud has arrived from Italy. Written and researched by Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves with Katie Barkes and Olivia Patteson-Knight, this impressively sized set – beautifully designed by Mark Holborn and Jesse Holborn – will be published on 11 February 2025.

To pre-order via Yale University Press, please click here.

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.