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BP Portrait Award Sarah Dunant

BP Portrait Award By Sarah Dunant

BP Portrait Award by Sarah Dunant


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Summary

Features over sixty works from an international list of artists, which together highlight the vitality and variety of portrait painting. This book includes an essay by renowned novelist Sarah Dunant, author of In the Company of the Courtesan and The Birth of Venus.

BP Portrait Award Summary

BP Portrait Award: 2009 by Sarah Dunant

The BP Portrait Award, now in its nineteenth year, is a popular fixture on the summer calendar, and is the leading showcase for artists specializing in portraiture. The competition is open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The 2008 award received 1,600 entrants, all competing for the main prize of GBP25,000 and a possible commission.

About Sarah Dunant

Sarah Dunant is a writer, broadcaster and critic. She was born in London and studied history at Cambridge university. After a brief spell working for the BBC she spent much of her twenties travelling before starting to write. Since then she has written eight novels, two screenplays and edited two books of essays. She has worked in television and radio as a presenter and a producer, is a patron of the ORANGE PRIZE for women's fiction, sits on the editorial board of the Royal Academy magazine and reviews for The Times, The Independent on Sunday and The Guardian.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword Sponsor's Foreword Author's Essay BP Portrait Award 2009 Prize-Winning Portraits Selected Portraits BP Travel Award Picture Credits Acknowledgements Index

Additional information

GOR001942352
9781855144033
1855144034
BP Portrait Award: 2009 by Sarah Dunant
Used - Very Good
Paperback
National Portrait Gallery Publications
20090618
80
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