Percy Lindsay : artist & bohemian (new copy)

A$40 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp. 143, illustrated. The only substantive biography on this talented and under-recognised painter. New copy. Christopher Menz (Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia 2005-10) reviewed the book in the June 2011 issue of Australian Book Review (ABR): Until now, Percy Lindsay has lacked a full biography. Here, he has been well served with a balanced assessment that presents an engaging but not particularly ambitious figure, a talented painter and draughtsman, fond of company and overfond of drink. Photographs, selected paintings, and illustrative works, along with useful appendices, including a who s who , exhibition listings, and illustrated book titles, make this a most practical volume, which fills a gap in biographies of Australian artists. Art historian Stephen Scheding wrote in the November 2011 issue of Australiana [journal of the Australiana Society]: [This is] an Australian art book that certainly deserved to be written… Biographer Silas Clifford-Smith goes about the task of restoring Percy’s reputation with marvellous enthusiasm. The project must have been a hugely daunting given the oceans of words written about the Lindsay family that needed to be waded through… It has taken some nice detective work on the part of Clifford-Smith to bring his character to life… this is a very worthwhile book and I was left with the strong feeling that we need another full-scale exhibition of Percy’

• Binding: Hardcover

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