{"product_id":"500-portraits-bp-portrait-award","title":"500 Portraits: BP Portrait Award","description":"This beautifully produced compendium features 500 paintings from many of the best\nfigurative artists active over the last twenty-one years. Reflecting the diverse methods of\ncontemporary portrait practice, the book includes a dazzling array of styles, from\nimmaculate photorealism to intense expressionism.\n\nThe BP Portrait Award is one of Britain’s most prestigious art prizes, and each year\nnearly 300,000 people visit the exhibition based on the competition. It has acted as a\nspringboard for many painters’ careers, notably the prize-winners who have been\nsubsequently commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to paint an eminent sitter.\nThis book includes full-colour reproductions of many of those commissions – including\npaintings of Dame Helen Mirren, J.K. Rowling, Sir Michael Caine, Fiona Shaw, Sir Ian\nMcKellen, Sir Paul Smith and Dame Cicely Saunders.\n\nAs well as these high-profile commissions, the book features an inspiring wealth of\nsubjects: unflinching self-portraits, warm portrayals of children and babies,\nconversation pieces, studies of people at home and at work – a rich and varied\nselection of hundreds of faces by some of the finest portrait painters of our time.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1855144484\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.1855144484.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Nairne, Sandy\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Excellent condition with just a hint of character. Minor signs of love, but the pages are still clean and ready for adventure.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603761463583,"sku":"PKV.1855144484.VG","price":38.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/1855144484-0.jpg?v=1770483692","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/500-portraits-bp-portrait-award","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}