Paul Vivian Overy (14 February 1940 – 7 August 2008) was a British art historian and critic who was an authority on De Stijl. Selected publications Edouard Manet, 1967 De Stijl, 1969 Kandinsky: The Language of the Eye, 1969 The Rietveld Schröder House, 1988 (co-author) The Complete Furniture of Gerrit Rietveld, 1993 (co-author) Light, Air and Openness, Modern Architecture Between the Wars, 2008. References 1940 births 2008 deaths People from Dorchester, Dorset English art critics English art historians