Wood Ingleby, Richard (1 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very good. 17 x 26cm 295pp very good hardback in dust jacket. Accompanied by a postcard showing a Christopher Wood painting, with a handwritten note to art critic, Tim Hilton, signed by the author Richard Ingleby. John Christopher "Kit" Wood was an English painter born in Knowsley, near Liverpool.At Liverpool University, Wood met Augustus John, who encouraged him to be a painter. The French collector Alphonse Kahn invited him to Paris in 1920. From 1921 he trained as a painter at the AcadÈmie Julian in Paris, where he met Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Georges Auric and Diaghilev. He travelled around Europe and north Africa between 1922 and 1924. Includes black and white plus some colour reproductions.