Delacroix: The Late Work
Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1998. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt stamped design, color-illustrated dust jacket. 406 pp. 416 plates and figures, 161 in full color. VG/VG As New. Item #163122
ISBN: 9780500092750
Several comprehensive essays accompany an extensively annotated and beautifully illustrated catalogue of 150 works. Exhibition held Sept. 15, 1998 to Jan. 3, 1999, one other location. Contents as follows: Chronology / Arlette Sérullaz -- The late work : continuity and variation / Lee Johnson -- Eugène Delacroix as seen by his contemporaries / Arlette Sérullaz -- Eugène Delacroix : the state, collectors, and dealers / Vincent Pomarède -- Delacroix and America / Joseph J. Rishel -- Delacroix : the late work [catalogue]. Felines and hunts ; The feeling for nature ; Allegories and mythologies ; Literary inspiration ; The lesson of Morocco ; Religious aspiration ; The final works / [Arlette Sérullaz and Vincent Pomarède ; with Louis-Antoine Prat] -- The technique of Eugène Delacroix : a historical approach / David Liot. A pivotal figure in the history of nineteenth-century art, Delacroix stands both at the culmination of the great painterly tradition of Titian, Veronese, Rubens, and Rembrandt and at the beginning of something quite new and modern, as witnessed by the reverence given him by artists of following generations who were so profoundly influenced by his work: Renoir, Cezanne, Picasso, and Matisse. This publication, accompanying an international exhibition that begins in Paris and travels to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, presents in glorious color subjects ranging from saints and warriors to mythical goddesses, from Arab hunting scenes and tigers to sumptuous bouquets of flowers. Delacroix's late work reveals a deepening spiritual intensity and has more to do with aesthetic reflection and recollection than with the expansive narrative that characterized his grand public commissions. Focusing on the artist's last works allows further insight into this most remarkable and protean figure in the history of art.
OCLC: 911307229
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