The Prints of Edouard Manet

Fisher, Jay McKean

Arts & Photography

Intl Exhibitions Foundation

Édouard Manet (1832 - 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born into an upper-class household with strong political connections, Manet rejected the future originally envisioned for him, and became engrossed in the world of painting. His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia, both 1863, caused great controversy and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism. Today, these are considered watershed paintings that mark the start of modern art. The last 20 years of Manet's life saw him form bonds with other great artists of the time, and develop his own style that would be heralded as innovative and serve as a major influence for future painters.

International Exhibitions Foundation

Felix Buhot, Peintre-Graveur: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings

Baltimore Museum of Art

<p>Jay McKean Fisher Paperback, 88 p., 102 illus. Drawn from the extraordinary collection of Matisse prints that once belonged to the artist's son, Pierre, and is now part of the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Matisse as Printmaker includes approximately sixty-three etchings, monotypes, aquatints, lithographs, linocuts in black and white, and two-color prints-examples of every type of printmaking utilized by Matisse. The exhibition underscores the importance of his work in series, as well as such recurring motifs as the standing, seated, and reclining nude, and brings this unfamiliar and under-studied material to a wider audience. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) may be best known as a painter and sculptor, but he himself placed no hierarchy on the mediums in which he worked. Each medium was exploited for its unique possibilities and became totally integrated with other formal and thematic concerns. It is in drawing, and by extension printmaking, however, that Matisse reveals most openly the focus of his thematic interests. In the print imagery, we see the significance of the series in Matisse's art, as one motif, such as a reclining nude, becomes a progression of images. The serial aspects of printmaking uniquely mirror the artist's process by taking the viewer around a model with different points of view as the process of studio modeling continues. Matisse as Printmaker includes series such as nudes in the studio, friends and family members, women watching fish in a bowl, leg studies, and odalisques. This fully illustrated catalogue includes an essay exploring Matisse's use of printmaking throughout his career by Jay McKean Fisher, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at The Baltimore Museum of Art. This catalogue was published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 25, 2009-January 3, 2010</p>

MATISSE AS PRINTMAKER: Works from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation

American Federation of Arts

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