Edward Burra. Complete Catalogue

Oxford: Phaidon, 1985.

Large hardback in the first rate dust-jacket, as new. 504 illustrations including 32 colour plates. 207 pages. The first study of the life and work of Edward Burra (1905-1976) the English painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He is best known for his disturbing, surrealism-tinged executiions of the urban underworld, black culture and the Harlem scene of the 1930s. Text comprises notes, catalogue of paintings, selection of drawings, exhibition history, bibliography, public collections list, index.