The late novelist Paul Bowles delivers an odd compliment in the introduction to this sumptuously illustrated survey of the neoclassical painter Claudio Bravo. Bravo (b. 1936), he says, sure knows how to manage his Moroccan servants. Yet Bowles's comment may be more relevant than it first appears, for Bravo's talent for control is evident in every painting reproduced here; no one who opens this book will doubt that he has a dazzling technical mastery of his materials. And if a handful of self-consciously thematic paintings (stiffly posed models and vaguely symbolic objects) and an essay written in impenetrable art talk by critic Calvo Serraller fail to definitely establish Bravo as a Serious Artist," this detracts little from the book's real attraction: the glorious still lifes.

PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS 1964/1974

PAUL BOWLES

PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS 1975/1984

FRANCISCO CALVO SERRALLER

THE REALITY OF PAINTING

PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS 1985/1994

EDWARD J. SULLIVAN

CONVERSATION WITH CLAUDIO BRAVO

PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS 1995/2004

EDWARD J. SULLIVAN

OBSESSION AND MEDITATION:

A DECADE OF WORK BY CLAUDIO BRAVO

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