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": Finely Bound First Edition of Winston S. Churchill's Painting As A Pastime
Painting As A Pastime.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Item Number: 132343
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 three quarters leather over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, illustrated with eighteen reproductions of Churchill’s paintings in full color. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
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.
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