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

"A masterpiece, a major work of modern art history." — Wall Street Journal

Martin Gayford's masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves.

Now available in an attractive paperback, Modernists and Mavericks is Martin Gayford’s impressively researched and well-reviewed chronicle of postwar London painting.

Modernists and Mavericks explores the development of painting in London from the Second World ...