To mark the centenary of Georges Seurat's death in 1891, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Musée d'Orsay and The Metropolitan Museum of Art organized a landmark retrospective, Georges Seurat, 1859–1891, which will be seen on both sides of the Atlantic. In this exhibition and publication, such masterpieces as Parade de cirque, Cirque, and Jeune femme se poudrant, and an extraordinary group of seascapes testify to Seurat's pictorial ambitions. His splendid drawings in conté crayon place him, with Ingres, among the greatest draftsmen of the nineteenth century. These sheets and the beautiful series of small paintings on wood―his croquetons (little sketches)―give a more intimate view of Seurat. A large number of works are exhibited together for the first time, thanks to the generosity of private collectors. This publication is meant to stimulate a fresh view of Seurat as well as to display his work. A century after Seurat's death, we are now able to correct some of the myths that grew up around him. Because he died at the age of thirty-one, he was long believed to have produced only a few pictures and to have died of consumption or some other frailty (so tenacious is the romantic paradigm of an early death). To the contrary, he was tall for his era (five feet, nine and one-half inches), and his friends always described him as being robust, but he ultimately succumbed to an epidemic of virulent diphtheria. As for his productivity, from his one decade of maturity there survive six huge canvases and sixty smaller ones, about 170 wood panels, 230 completed drawings, and fourty-five studies or fragmentary drawings, among other works. Harder to overcome than the myth of a frail, unproductive artist is the idea that Seurat's work was all but abstract, that the heart of his art lay not in his subjects but in his geometric compositions which presented summary types rather than individual humans. This book contests that Seurat's types are not "abstract"―that they are not the residue of a purely formal instinct but are brilliant visual distillations of psychological and social meanings. [This book was originally published in 1991 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Georges Seurat, 1859–1891

Arts & Photography

Tinterow, Gary

Cachin, Françoise

Stein, Susan Alyson

Herbert, Robert L.

Distel, Anne

Individual Artists

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The works of Gaugin, and the story of his bohemian exploits.

Gauguin The Quest for Paradise (New Horizons) /anglais

Biographies & Memoirs

Thames&Hudson

The work of Manet is defined in this book - he was an artist who interpreted modern life with a fresh handling of colour and tone. Yet he craved official recognition and was dogged by notoriety. He rejected traditional conventions in paintings such as "Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe" and "Olympia".

Manet Painter of Modern Life (New Horizons) /anglais

Treasures of the Musee D'Orsay (Tiny Folio) (Spanish Edition)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Abbeville Press

Surveys the life and work of the artist, discussing his impact on Impressionism, his technique, and his crtical reception during his lifetime

Manet (MASTERS OF MODERN ART)

Henry Holt Co.

Introduction, captions, and biographical notes translated from the French by James Underwood. With 668 illustrations, including 208 plates in full color. Fine condition in fine dust jacket.

Arts of the 19th Century: 1780 To 1850

VAUGHAN, William

History & Criticism

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Arts of the 19th Century: 1850 To 1905: 2

Following the life and artistic career of one of the greatest of the Postimpressionist painters, an illustrated biography of Gauguin includes information culled from his letters and writings, and reproductions of many of his paintings. Original.

Gauguin: The Quest for Paradise

Harry N. Abrams

Exploring Edouard Manet's earliest influences and retracing events that led to his becoming the "godfather of Impressionism," a colorful account looks closely at the controversies that surrounded his most famous paintings: Le De+a7jeuner sur l'Herbe and Olympia. Original.

Manet:The Influence of the Modern

Paul Signac

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

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