Recommended Books on the Premier Coup Technique
     
Books by John Howard Sanden — Currently available from the Portrait Institute.
Recent Portraits. The Portrait Institute Press, 2014.

Face to Face With Greatness: The Adventure of Portrait Painting. The Portrait Institute Press, Georgetown, CT 06828, 2009.

The Portraits of John Howard Sanden. Madison Square Press, New York, 2001.

Portraits from Life in 29 Steps. North Light Books, F&W Publications, Inc., 1999.

To purchase these books, go to the Ordering page.
     

Books by John Howard Sanden — No longer in print.
Successful Portrait Painting. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1981.
Painting the Head in Oil. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1976.

(These books are no longer in print, but used copies are available from Internet book dealers.)
     

By Richard Schmid
Alla Prima: Everthing I Know About Painting. Stove Prairie Press, www.richardschmid.com

This is the finest book of painting instruction available today.
     
John Singer Sargent
Ormond, Richard and Kilmurray, Elaine. John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits. Yale University Press, 302 Temple Street, New Haven CT 06511-8909.

Ormond, Richard and Kilmurray, Elaine. John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s. Yale University Press.

Ormond, Richard and Kilmurray, Elaine. John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits. Yale University Press.

These splendid, handsome volumes are a must in every portrait painter’s library.
     




Joaquin Sorolla
Diez, José Luis and Barón, Javier. Joaquín Sorolla 1863-1923. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain, 2009.

Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza. Sargent/Sorolla. Artes Gráficas, Palermo, 2006.

Peel, Edmund. The Painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022, 1989.
     

Philip de László
Bailey, Bellák, Lloyd, Ormond, Wood & de Laszlo. A Brush With Grandeur: Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937). Paul Holberton Publishing, 37 Snowfields, London SE1 3SU, England, 2004.

Grever, Tonko and Heuft, Annemieke with contributions by Sandra de László. de László in Holland: Dutch Masterpieces by Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937). Paul Holberton Publishing, 37 Snowfields, London SE1 3SU, England, 2006.
     


Anders Zorn
Tostmann, Oliver (Editor). Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Paul Holberton Publishing, 37 Snowfields, London SE1 3SU, England, 2013.
     



Valentin Serov
Sarabyanov, Dmitry and Arbuzov, Grigory. Valentin Serov: Paintings, Graphic Works, Stage Designs. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1982.