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8 de mar. de 2005 · Explore Watercolours and Drawings in the Collection of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The art collection formed by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother reflects her warm friendships with artists and her very personal response to a quality in works of art that she called ‘the effect of magic’.
16 de out. de 2020 · Her collection included works by some of the most important British artists of the twentieth century, including John Piper, Augustus John, David Jones and John Bratby. This book tells the stories behind the commissions, purchases and gifts and portrays a royal collector with a delight in the beautiful and a taste for the unusual.
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother had a life-long love of art. Over the course of many years she formed a diverse collection of watercolours and drawings. From the first portrait of the young Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, to watercolours presented on her hundredth birthday, the works in this exhibition were personal treasures.
On the King's death in 1952 Queen Elizabeth, now the Queen Mother, returned to Royal Lodge and Birkhall. She purchased the Castle of Mey in Caithness as a private residence, and Clarence House became her London home. Throughout her life the Queen Mother collected watercolours and drawings both of her official and her private residences.
This is the first catalogue devoted to the extraordinary art collection formed by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The watercolours and drawings illustrated here, many for the first...
Watercolours and drawings from the collection of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Susan Owens, 2005, Royal Collection edition, in English Watercolours and drawings from the collection of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Susan Owens | Open Library
This catalogue includes a substantial and lavishly illustrated introduction which investigates Queen Elizabeth's approach to art collecting, particularly her strong support for the arts during the Second World War.
