“Every crease is a story.”
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Born 1924
Anthony David Bernard Sylvester was a British art critic and curator. Although he received no formal education in the arts, during his long career he was influential in promoting modern artists, in particular Francis Bacon, Joan Miró, and Lucian Freud.
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Henry Moore
David Sylvester, Henry Moore & others, 1934

Interviews with Francis Bacon
David Sylvester, 1975

René Magritte
René Passeron, David Sylvester & others, 1967

Magritte
David Sylvester, 1969

René Magritte, catalogue raisonné
René Magritte, Sarah Whitfield & others, 1992

Richard Serra
Richard Serra, Hans Janssen & others, 1970

Francis Bacon
David Sylvester, 1975

The Brutality of Fact
David Sylvester, 1988

Willem de Kooning
Marla Prather, David Sylvester & others, 1994

Looking back at Francis Bacon
David Sylvester, 2000

About Modern Art
David Sylvester, 1996

Looking at Giacometti
David Sylvester, 1994

Interviews with American Artists
David Sylvester, 2001

Henry Moore complete sculpture
Alan Bowness, Henry Moore & others, 1999

Modern art, from Fauvism to abstract expressionism
David Sylvester, 1966
Moonraker, Strangelove and other celluloid dreams
Ken Adam & David Sylvester, 1999

William Turnbull: Sculpture and Paintings
William Turnbull, Patrick Elliott & others, 1996
What Is History?
David Sylvester, et al. & others, 1976

Leon Kossoff : Recent Paintings
David Sylvester & Rudolf Herman Fuchs, 1995
Arab-Israeli Conflict (Modern World Studies)
David Sylvester
Autobiography
David Sylvester, 2002
Drawing Towards Painting
David Sylvester, 1962

Enquiry in Depth: Britain 1815-51
David Sylvester, 1977
Entrevista Con Francis Bacon (Ensayo-Art)
David Sylvester

Entrevistas com Francis Bacon
David Sylvester, 1998
Entrevistas Con Francis Bacon
David Sylvester, 1992

Figurabile
David Sylvester, 1993

Interviews with American Artists with American Artists
David Sylvester, 2002
Interviews with Francis Bacon, 1962-1979
David Sylvester, 1980

Memoirs of a Pet Lamb
David Sylvester, 2002
New York takeover
David Sylvester, 1964
Patrick Hughes
David Sylvester, 1994
Richard Hamilton
David Sylvester, 1991
Roy Litchenstein - Some Kind of Reality
David Sylvester, 1997
Ten Modern Artists
David Sylvester, 1964
Work #2
David Sylvester, 1998

London Recordings
David Sylvester, 2003
The Move to European Unity
David Sylvester, 1977
René Magritte, 135 Rue Esseghem, Jette-Bruxelles
Jan Ceuleers, David Sylvester & others, 1999
Ten American artists
David Sylvester, 1965
William Coldstream
David Sylvester, 1976
Elizabethan England
David Sylvester & et al., 1977
Jeff Koons
Rosenblum, Robert. & others, 1998

Vision
Melvyn Bragg, Michael Craig-Martin & others, 1999
Francis Bacon, Triptych 1974-77
Francis Bacon, David Sylvester & others, 2008
Thirteen bronzes
Alberto Giacometti, David Sylvester & others, 1977
Malcolm Morely
David Sylvester, 1990
Bacon
Francis Bacon, Harry Bellet & others, 1996
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