-The first publication to discuss in depth this period of Mackintosh's
work -Written by the leading Mackintosh expert -Includes extracts from
Mackintosh's letters written while in France, to friends and family
-Revised edition which features a fresh, modern new cover -New, popular
flexicover binding - adds a modern, luxurious feel -Contains a new
foreword by the Director General of the National Galleries of Scotland,
Sir John Leighton Known worldwide for his architecture and interior
designs, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was also an extremely
gifted painter. Towards the end of his life, he gave up his principal
career as an architect and moved to the south of France where he devoted
himself to painting in watercolor. Meticulously executed and brilliantly
colored, these landscape watercolors are conceived with a sense of
design and an eye for pattern in nature, which owes much to his
brilliance as an architect and designer. This book charts Mackintosh's
time in France and explores his career as a landscape painter, placing
his work in the context of the modern movement. The forty-four paintings
Mackintosh is known to have completed while in France are illustrated,
and are supported by documentary photographs of the places he painted as
well as extracts from his letters written to his wife and friends. This
new, revised edition of an enduringly popular title on one of Scotland's
best-loved artists contains a new foreword by the Director General of
the National Galleries of Scotland, Sir John Leighton, and will feature
a new cover design, updated to feature the popular flexicover binding.
