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Martin Gayford is an art critic and art historian. He studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London. Over three decades, he has written prolifically about art and music in a series of major biographies, as well as contributing regularly to newspapers, magazines and exhibition catalogues. In parallel with his career as an art historian, he was art critic of The Spectator magazine and The Sunday Telegraph newspaper before becoming Chief Art Critic for the international television network, Bloomberg News. He has been a regular contributor to the British journal of art criticism, Modern Painters.

His books include a study of Van Gogh and Gauguin in Arles, The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles , which was published in Britain and the USA to critical acclaim, and has been translated, to date, into five languages; Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter , a study of John Constable’s romance with Maria Bicknell and their lives between 1809 and 1816; and A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney .

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Martin Gayford

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Books from Martin Gayford

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen

Michelangelo: His Epic Life

Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy

Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters

A History of Pictures for Children: From Cave Paintings to Computer Drawings

The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations

David Hockney: A Bigger Picture

Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter

The Grove Book of Art Writing: Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst

Lucian Freud: Painting People. Introduction by Martin Gayford

Degas and the Nude

David Hockney: Current

یک پیام بزرگتر: گفت‌و‌گو با دیوید هاکنی

Lucian Freud's Sketchbooks

Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

Plasmare il mondo: La scultura dalla preistoria a oggi

Rendez-vous with Art