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Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musee D'Orsay

Arts & Photography

Morton, Mary G.

Brenneman, David

History & Criticism

Harry N. Abrams

Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Published to coincide with the opening of the Audrey Jones Beck building in March of 2000, this lavishly illustrated catalogue--the first single volume dedicated to this extraordinary collection--features one hundred of the most important European paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The works, which range in date from the early Renaissance to the beginning of the twentieth century, are all handsomely featured as full-page color plates. The accompanying text is highly accessible, providing interesting insights into the artists' lives and explaining--in general terms--the stylistic evolution of the history of European painting. Furthermore, important new research on unpublished works has been incorporated into the entries.
 The European painting collection of the Museum of Fine Arts has grown tremendously over the past fifty years through the generosity of major donors and patrons. The 1944 bequest by Edith A. and Percy S. Straus forms the foundation of the permanent collection, including works by such well-known Italian and Northern Renaissance artists as Fra Angelico, Rogier van der Weyden, and Hans Memling. The next milestone was the acquisition of the Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection, which comprises splendid pictures spanning many centuries, such as major works by Giovanni di Paolo, Frans Hals, Canaletto, Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas. Purchases and gifts, including substantial donations from Samuel H. Kress and the Kress Foundation from the 1930s through the 1960s, further strengthened the holdings of Renaissance and Baroque pictures with exceptional works such as Sebastiano del Piombo's Portrait of Anton Francesco degli Albizzi and Orazio Gentileschi's Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl. The renowned John A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection includes a significant number of important Impressionist and modern paintings, represented herein with works by Edouard Manet, Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Signac, Georges Braque, and Vassily Kandinsky. Represented as well are some of the museum's most important recent acquisitions, such as Still Life with Golden Bream, a stunning canvas by Francisco de Goya, and Still Life of Flowers and Fruit, a ravishing work by Jan van Huysum.
 With beautiful reproductions and informative commentary, Masterworks of European Painting will be of great appeal to art lovers and scholars alike.

Bowron, Edgar Peters

Museum of Fine Arts. Houston

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Princeton Univ Pr

Book Description Catalogue de l'exposition "Portraits de Cézanne", présentée au musée d'Orsay, Paris, du 13 juin au 24 septembre 2017. From the Back Cover Cet ouvrage est le catalogue de la grande exposition estivale du musée d'Orsay. Paul Cézanne a peint près de deux cents portraits au cours de sa carrière, dont vingt-six autoportraits et vingt-neuf représentant son épouse, Hortense Fiquet. Ce catalogue explore les particularités esthétiques et thématiques de Cézanne dans cet exercice particulier, et notamment la manière dont il instaure un dialogue entre des oeuvres complémentaires et réalise de multiples versions d'un même sujet. Une approche chronologique du Cézanne portraitiste permet d'étudier son évolution, en s'attardant sur les variations qui apparaissent dans la continuité de son style et de sa méthode. "Cézanne. Portraits" pose égaIement la question de sa conception de la ressemblance et de l'identité du modèle, ainsi que celle de l'influence qu'ont pu avoir certains d'entre eux dans ses choix et dans le développement de sa pratique. Les oeuvres rassemblées dans l'exposition, venues de collections privées et de prestigieux musées du monde entier, vont du remarquable portrait de l'oncle Dominique datant des années 1860, jusqu'aux ultimes représentations de Vallier, le jardinier de Cézanne à Aix-en-Provence, réalisées peu de temps avant la mort de l'artiste en 1906. Cézanne est communément considéré comme l'un des artistes du XIXᵉ siècle ayant le plus inspiré les générations suivantes. Face à ses portraits, nous sommes sans doute confrontés à l'aspect le plus personnel, et donc le plus humain, de son oeuvre.

Cézanne : Portraits

DANCHEV, Alex

COLLECTIFS

Rey, Xavier

Mathias, Annabelle

Eledrfield, John

Warman, Jayne S.

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