reviews_and_ramblings | Event: The Launch of Shaun's New Book

Date: Sunday, October 24
Time: 15.00 - 17.00
Place: King's Place
90 York Way, N1 9AG
London, United Kingdom

Please join Shaun Levin in celebrating his new book, based on moments in the life of the artist Mark Gertler, and published in a stunningly beautiful format by Sylph Editions (did someone say Christmas present material?).

Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Sylph Editions (September 15, 2010)
ISBN-10: 0956509258
ISBN-13: 978-0956509253
Amazon: The Bathers: Trees at a Sanatorium

The first edition of The Nobile Folios explores Bathers 1917-18 by the major British painter Mark Gertler (1891-1939). The painting is set alongside Shaun Levin’s original short story ‘Trees at a Sanatorium’.

Bathers 1917-18 was painted when Gertler was only 26 and dates from a period of intensive research into Cézanne. Bathers is amongst his seminal masterworks from the World War I period together with Gertler's iconic Merry-Go-Round 1916, (about which D. H. Lawrence said, to Gertler, that it ‘is the finest picture you have ever painted: it is the best modern picture I have seen.’)

Shaun Levin’s story ‘Trees at a Sanatorium’ was written specifically for this publication, and is part of his ongoing exploration of the lives of the artists Isaac Rosenberg, David Bomberg and Mark Gertler. Levin began work on his Whitechapel Boys trilogy working primarily in situ, writing in the places Gertler visited, whether out of choice or necessity, from the sanatorium at Banchory in Scotland, to Catalonia, Paris and the gardens at Garsington Manor. ‘Trees at a Sanatorium’ is a meditation on landscape and the importance of intimacy in artistic creation.

You can read a bit about the book by click on this link: http://www.sylpheditions.com/NobileFolios/Gertler/nf_1.html