Immortal Thoughts

In 2020, Christopher Neve retreated to his childhood home to revel in the transcendent beauty of the seasons and to reflect on the final works of his favourite artists. Immortal Thoughts is an anthology of these reflections. From Cézanne’s last watercolours to Michelangelo’s final drawings, from Rembrandt and suffering to Gwen John and absence, Neve dwells on artists’ late ideas, memory and places. In discussing great art in the context of Time and the Dance of Death, this impassioned and distinctive book brings a profound new perspective to the history of art.