English Romanesque Art 1066-1200 (Signed Henry Moore Letter)

The first comprehensive survey of every aspect of the art of Norman England. The catalogue of the Arts Council’s major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery it eloquently testifies to one of the richest periods in English cultural life. George Zarnecki’s copy with his bookplate to front pastedown. With a Compliment slip affixed to front free end paper from the Publishers. With a TLS from Joanna Drew Director Art at the Arts Council of GB to Zarnecki warmly thanking the latter for all his work. Also contains TLS from Henry Moore to Zarnecki thanking him for sending on photographs of the exhibition ‘… I think you realised when we went round the exhibition, that I enjoyed it enormously…’

George Zarnecki (1915–2008) Polish Professor of the History of Art. He was a scholar of Medieval art and English Romanesque sculpture, an area of study in which he did pioneering research. From 1961 to 1974 he was a deputy director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London when Blunt was Director.

Condition: light shelf-worn dust-wrapper