The Painter (Self-portrait at Work ... Her spare abstract works, expressionist landscapes and perceptive portraits hang in top museums. Now a new book, Françoise Gilot: The Years in France ...

Just ask the endless succession of nominees for inventor of abstract ... self-portrait, the late Medieval Dutch-German theologian Thomas à Kempis published his influential Christian devotional ...

A new book, out next month ... the pieces—which date mostly from 1985 to 1987—include self-portraits, abstract faces and nudes, geometric still-lifes, and swirling line drawings; many convey ...