Augustus John was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse.

The Augustus John painting was found at an auction after a house was cleared in the Cotswolds A previously unknown painting by Welsh artist Augustus John was snapped up by an expert following a ...

John then was seen as a fragile figure bravely holding her own between two bombastic male egos. On the one hand there was her brother, the once stellar portrait painter Augustus John, on the other ...

Augustus John was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse.

A collection of photographs of Welsh artist Augustus John, mostly taken during the filming of BBC programme Face To Face (broadcast on 15 May 1959) in which the artist talked to John Freeman at ...