FIRST EDITION limited to 600 copies (+ 48 specials); 310 x 242mm, pp.180; illustrated in colour with over 200 works from the Britten-Pears collection; new in cloth-backed pictorial covers. An original and handsome study which 'considers for the first time the importance of art and design in the lives of composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears.' Includes work by Duncan Grant, Piper, Nolan, Mary Potter, Kenneth Green, Gaudier-Brzeska, Philip Sutton, Ceri Richards, and many others including 19thC landscapes by Lear and Constable (attrib.). We are also able to offer the deluxe edition at �345. SPAC 90 Aldeburgh Festival Suffolk 20thC Art Opera Architecture Illustrated Book.

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Title: A Musical Eye. The Visual World of Britten and Pears. With an Introduction by Colin Matthews [and.] chapters by David Grilly, Caroline Harding, Paul Kildea, Judith Legrove, Julian Potter, Alan Powers, Jane Pritchard, T.G. Rosenthal.
Publisher: Artists' Choice Editions,
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

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