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1) Delacroix
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was one of the greatest creative figures of the nineteenth century. Coming of age after the fall of Napoleon, he reconnected the present to the past on his own terms. Delacroix produced an extraordinarily vibrant body of work, setting into motion a cascade of innovations that changed the course of art. This exhibition will be the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to this amazing artist ever held...
Author
Publisher
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The filmmaker Jean Renoir, son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, described how his father "looked at flowers, women and clouds in the sky as other men touch and caress." Impressionism is generally conceived of as purely visual, an optical exploration of light-dappled surfaces and shifting colors. Renoir: Intimacy instead focuses on the central role of tactile sensations in Renoir's canvases. In all the different phases of his long career,...
Author
Publisher
Hazan
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This title will accompany the first ever exhibition dedicated to Julie Manet - the only daughter of Berthe Morisot and the niece of Édouard Manet - that will be held from October 19, 2021 to March 20, 2022 at Muse e Marmottan Monet Paris. It offers an exhaustive description of Julie Manet's life, work and art collection, and a new and richly detailed account of her role in the life of the arts. The book will cover several aspects of the artist's...
4) James Tissot
Author
Publisher
de Young, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Pub. Date
©2019.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
American Federation of Arts
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists, drawn to the French capital by its academies and museums, studios and salons. Featuring thirty-six artists from eleven different countries, this beautifully illustrated book explores the strength of these women's creative achievements, through paintings by acclaimed Impressionists such as Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, and extraordinary lesser-known...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A major new study of the portraiture of one of the most important artists of the nineteenth century. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) may be best known for his landscapes, but he also painted some 160 portraits throughout his exceptional career. This major work establishes portraiture as an essential practice for Cézanne, from his earliest self-portraits in the 1860s; to his famous depictions of figures including his wife Hortense Fiquet, the writer Émile...
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