Thames and Hudson have published two books by Timothy Hyman. Sienese Painting (2003) was described in the TLS as “an unimprovable union of exceptionally acute looking, magical prose, and authoritative scholarship”; it was hailed by John Banville in The Irish Times as “a masterpiece of English prose”, and by Tom Lubbock in The Independant as “a classic”.

Hyman’s monograph on Bonnard (1998) was praised by Jed Perl in The New Republic: “very impressive. I can’t think of another recent book about a painter that has struck me as so heartfelt, so lucid, so wise.” Julian Bell in the TLS called it “an incomparable guide”, while Hilton Kramer in The New Criterion judged it “by far the best thing ever written about the painter”. Writing in The Spectator the Bonnard-scholar Sargy Mann declared it: “a wonderful book…in a completely different class from the other Bonnard monographs.”