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The Memoirs of Oliver Brown. Foreword by Sir Alec Martin. Pp. xii+200, frontispiece portrait plus 14 plates, one text illustration, appendices, index; purple cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered in silver; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle creased; endpapers slightly offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, London, 1968. First edition. O'Brien D0004 [T. E. Lawrence reference]. *'Oliver Brown gives an account of his association - since 1903 - with the Leicester Galleries.... [which] took the lead in exhibiting the work of modern artists in England: they were the first to hold public exhibitions of Cezanne, Degas, Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh - to name only a few' [wrapper blurb]. Includes the text of T. E. Lawrence's preface to the 1921 Catalogue for an Exhibition of Arab Portraits by Eric Kennington, and George Bernard Shaw's preface to a 1927 Catalogue of an exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Woodcuts illustrating T. E. Lawrence's book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Item #153189
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