CHRISTOPHER LE BRUN

First Edition. Signed by Christopher Le Brun. Publisher's original cream cloth boards with gilt titling to the spine and front panel, with illustrated dustwrapper featuring detail from Le Brun's 'Thorn', in cream cloth slipcase with gilt titling. Illustrated throughout with 180 colour and 20 black and white illustrations. A fine copy, the binding tight and square, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents is clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete with a fine slipcase and crisp dustwrapper.

Signed to the title page in black ink 'Christopher Le Brun / 27. 11.01'. The first major survey of Le Brun's work, showing the variety of disciplines he worked across at the time, as well as providing insight into his creative process through studio imagery and notebooks. Introduced by Charles Saumarez Smith, with essays by Bryan Robertson and Norman Lynton, featuring an interview with the artist by Bryan Robertson. 'A definitive account of the artist's achievement's, it also presents us with a strong sense of work in progress from an artist who is still evolving.' with Le Brun helping 'to set the pace for a fresh attack in painting from the early eighties onwards with his startling explorations of classical subject matter' (front dustwrapper flap). Uncommon signed.