Painting As A Pastime.
"There is no better exercise for the would-be artist than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it": First Edition of Winston S. Churchill's Painting As A Pastime; Finely Bound by the Bayntun Bindery
Painting As A Pastime.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
$1,250.00
Item Number: 149813
London: Oldham Press Limited/Ernest Benn Limited, 1948.
First edition of this collection of Churchill’s brilliant essays on hobbies and painting. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles to the spine in three compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated throughout. In near fine condition.
Churchill was a prolific and skilled painter, finding solace in the hobby that he described as "...a friend who makes no undue demands, excites to no exhausting pursuits, keeps faithful pace even with feeble steps, and holds her canvas as a screen between us and the envious eyes of Time or the surly advance of Decrepitude." This volume contains eighteen reproductions in full color of many of his most moving landscapes painted on Lake Como, near the Mediterranean sea, and outside of Monte Carlo.
