The Street Cecily Brown was published by the Institute

was published by the Institute of Contemporary Arts

It documents his directorship of London’s Mayor Gallery in the 1930s

he sought to indicate narrative truth through the depiction of elementary relationships between people and things

developing his works with attention to abstraction and subtleties of color

Combining figurative and abstract passages

The Street Cecily Brown was published by the InstituteThis book was published on the occasion of The Street at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, a group exhibition curated by Peter Doig. Taking as its point of departure Balthuss 1933 painting of the same name, loaned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition was a portrait of urban life seen through the eyes of painters. Featuring streets painted from life and others created in the imagination, it included works by Frank Auerbach,