Corot
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, 1996. Softcover. Green & color illustrated glued wraps, white lettering. xvi; 479 pp. Many color & BW illustrations. VG-. Average wear to edges; page edges are tanning lightly; otherwise clean. One copy has owner's writing on first page. Item #148051
ISBN: 9780870997716
Published in conjunction with the exhibit "Corot," held from February- September, 1996 at Grand Palais and the National Gallery of Canada, and from October 1996- January 1997 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Contents as follows: 1821-34 The Making of An Artist. Catalogue: 1-60 / Vincent Pomarede -- 1835-58 The Greatest Landscape Painter of Our Time. Catalogue: 61-114 / Michael Pantazzi -- 1859-75 Le Pere Corot: The Very Poet of Landscape. Catalogue: 115-163 / Gary Tinterow -- Corot Forgeries: Is the Artist Responsible? / Vincent Pomarede -- Corot and His Collectors / Michael Pantazzi. Two hundred years after the birth of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), 163 of the French artist's finest paintings have been brought together in an important exhibition that allows a public on both sides of the Atlantic to rediscover the riches and pleasures of his art. Corot, an original painter who produced a body of work of exceptional range, has been many things to many viewers. His silvery landscapes were adored by nineteenth-century collectors, and his sparkling sketches painted in plein air were later hailed as precursors of Impressionism. Art lovers have prized his figures paintings, the least well known and perhaps the most modern of all his works. Corot's long and prolific career coincided with major artistic developments: the flourishing of Neoclassical, Romantic, and Realist tendencies; the Barbizon school; the rise of Impressionism. Although he has been claimed at various times for each of these movements, Corot defies categorization. His art was fueled by a profound love of the natural world, and the vision he pursued was his own. This catalogue of the exhibition recounts the engrossing progress of his life and art.
OCLC: 34281799
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