Editor, publishers, time and place of publication are not known. 185 p. Selected works of Aslan (Alain Gourdon) 1930 - 2014 French painter, sculptor, and pin-up artist. The collection contains 182 erotic drawings and paintings that had been published earlier in the variety of gentlemen's magazines in France.
Geneva: Editions d'Art Albert Skira, 1955. — 148 p. Édouard Manet was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impessionism.
Collection of essays. London: Chatto and Windus, 1922. - 230 p. Printed in England at the Cloister Press, Heaton Mersey, nr. Manchester. Since Cézanne The Artistic Problem The Douanier Rousseau Cézanne Renoir Tradition and Movements Matisse and Picasso The Place of Art in Art Criticism Bonnard Duncan Grant Negro Sculpture Order and Authority (1 and 2) Marquet Standards...
New York: Parkstone Press International. 2013. — 223 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78310-177-1 Félix Vallotton, né à Lausanne le 28 décembre 1865 et mort à Paris le 29 décembre 1925, est un artiste peintre, sculpteur et graveur sur bois Suisse, naturalisé Français en 1900. En une dizaine d’années, Vallotton parvient à se faire un nom auprès de l'avant-garde parisienne. Sa renommée devient...
London: Sirrocco. 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78042-094-3 Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality....
London: Sirrocco. 2004. — 80 p. — ISBN: 1844840166 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French, post-impressionist painter, famous for his paintings and prints of actors, dancers and prostitutes in the Montmartre area of Paris. Despite his noble origins, he painted scenes which shocked the "polite society" in Paris. In his short career, he had...
Universe, 1996. — 88 p. — (Universe of Art). The female nude was a source of inspiration for Pierre Auguste Renoir throughout his long and brilliant career. Scenes of bathers, nymphs or simply women as incarnations of nature's bounty, intimate portraits, and numerous color sketches provide a comprehensive overview into this aspect of his work.
Milano: Rizzoli Editore,.1971.—118 p. Georges Braque ( 13 Maggio 1882 - 31 Agosto 1963) è stato un importante 20 ° secolo pittore francese, collagista, disegnatore, incisore e scultore. I suoi contributi più importanti per la storia dell'arte erano nella sua alleanza con il Fauvismo dal 1906, e il ruolo svolto nello sviluppo del cubismo
J. Paul Getty, 2003. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-8923-6729-6. Prostitution was widespread in nineteenth-century Paris and, as French streets filled with these women of the night, French art and literature of the period took notice. This engrossing book explains why, providing the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes and examining how the...
Delphi Classics, 2015. — 1127 p. The innovative works of the Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne laid the foundations of a new and radically different form of art in the twentieth century. Challenging the conventional values of art in his time, Cézanne’s insistence on personal expression and the integrity of the painting itself, regardless of subject matter, have since earned him...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 654 p. — (Masters of Art Book). — ASIN: B00886CDJ4. This is the fourth volume of a new series of publications by Delphi Classics, the best-selling publisher of classical works. A first of its kind in digital print, the ‘Masters of Art’ series allows Kindle readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in comprehensive detail. This volume...
Delphi Classic. 2016. — 515 p. The leader of the French Romantic school of art, Eugène Delacroix was influential in the development of both Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, producing historical and contemporary masterpieces that would change the course of art. Delphi Classics’ Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers...
Delphi Classic. 2016. — 890 p. The prominent Impressionist artist Edgar Degas is widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life and sublime depictions of ballet dancers. He was a superb draftsman and masterly in his portrayal of movement, while his portraits are notable for their psychological complexity. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — 866 p. — (Masters of Art Book). — ASIN: B01EW28LSE. The prominent Impressionist artist Edgar Degas is widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life and sublime depictions of ballet dancers. He was a superb draftsman and masterly in his portrayal of movement, while his portraits are notable for their psychological complexity. Delphi’s Masters of Art...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — 508 p. — (Masters of Art Book). — ASIN: B01L5R4TL2. The French painter Édouard Manet, often associated with the Impressionists, broke new ground by defying traditional techniques of representation and by choosing contemporary subjects of Parisian life. His ‘Déjeuner sur l’herbe’ and ‘Olympia’ sparked public outcries, while inspiring a new generation of...
Delphi Classic, 2015. — 1637 p. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the master Impressionist, produced a stunning oeuvre of oil paintings, celebrated for their inimitable beauty and expression of feminine sensuality. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in comprehensive...
Delphi Classics, 2015. — 1626 p. — (Masters of Art Book). — ASIN: B00SX587N6. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the master Impressionist, produced a stunning oeuvre of oil paintings, celebrated for their inimitable beauty and expression of feminine sensuality. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1997. — 370 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-799-8 When Edgar Degas died in 1917, his enormous art collection, consisting of several thousand paintings, drawings, and prints, came to light. This remarkable assemblage included great numbers of works by the French nineteenth-century masters whom Degas revered — Delacroix, Ingres, and Daumier — and at the...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968. — 124 p. The life and work of the artist, Illustrated with 80 Full-color plates. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir ( 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — 1119. — (Delphi Masters of Art Book 32). The Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin is now recognised for his experimental use of colour and synthetist style, seeking to achieve a “primitive” expression of spiritual and emotional states in his work. Gauguin is particularly well known for his creative relationship with Vincent van Gogh as well as for his...
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1988. — 248 p. — ISBN/ASIN: 0810910489 — ISBN13 9780810910485. This new volume devoted to the early work of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is the first to explore the least-known period of this most brilliant, revolutionary, and influential of painters. His unique vision freed art from the academic constraints of the nineteenth century and heralded the...
First Impressions. - Harry N. Abrams, 1993. - 92 p.:ill. A book on post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), written especially for young readers. The author tells the story of Gauguin's life and work in a style which should appeal to those encountering the artist for the first time. The reader learns how Gauguin, a successful Paris stockbroker, left his family to...
New York: Time Inc., 1969. — 200 p. François Auguste René Rodin, known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture,[1] he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition,[2] although he was never accepted...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1991. — 462 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-618-5 Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. Seurat's artistic personality was compounded of qualities...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 208 p. From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how these pictures provided citizens with an imaginative stake in wars being waged in their...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992. — 282 p., pix Foreword by Philippe de Montebello and Klaus Gallwitz Preface and Acknowledgements Drawing and Liberty: Dauimier's Style by Colta Ives Drawing from the Mind: Reflections on the Iconography of Daumier's Drawings by Margret Stuffman Sculptural Aspects of Daumier's Drawing by Martin Sonnabend Movement and Time in the...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1996. — 74 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-804-8 The Metropolitan Museum has in its collection an exceptional body of art in a range of media by the late-nineteenth-century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. In exhibiting a large portion of these works, the Metropolitan once again invites the visitor — and the reader of this accompanying catalogue...
Illinois: Sourcebooks. 2000. — 148 p. — ISBN: 1570716927 Rierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) favorite among the Impressionists, Renoir depicted the sweetness of life of everyday events -of couples dancing, parties lunching, street scenes of shoppers. Follow Renoir's development from an apprentice painter of porcelain to the consummate master of large-scale figurative paintings.
Parkstone Press, 2011. — 200 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78042-731-7 For Monet, the act of creation was always a painful struggle. His obsession with expressing emotions and his desire to transmit light effects over nature were much more intense than his contemporaries. In his words: Skills come and go… Art is always the same: a transposition of Nature that requests as much will as...
New York: Parkstone International, 2012. — 208 p.: ill. Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning 'prophet'. Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel and Denis, the most distinguished of the Nabis, revolutionized the spirit of decorative techniques during one of the richest periods in the history of...
Todtri Book Publications, 1994. — 144 p. These handsomely illustrated volumes offer insight into the lives and works of those few unique individuals whose extraordinary creative genius has affected suceeding generations of artists and altered the way we view the world around us. Considering Impressionsim a national French style, Monet painted such diverse subjects as urban...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — (Delphi Masters of Art Book 29). The French painter ?douard Manet, often associated with the Impressionists, broke new ground by defying traditional techniques of representation and by choosing contemporary subjects of Parisian life. His ‘D?jeuner sur l’herbe’ and ‘Olympia’ sparked public outcries, while inspiring a new generation of artists to embark...
Morristown New Jersey USA: Time Ink., 1972. — 200 p. Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century
CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2015. — 106 p. — ISBN: 978-1508495406. Sketcher, painter, engraver, sculptor and collector, Auguste Rodin is recognized worldwide for the exceptional authenticity of his anatomical sculptures, but drawing was his means of discovering "truth" in life and in art: for him "good" drawing represented truth and simplicity in nature; 'bad" drawing...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. — 240 p. Notions of civilization and barbarism were intrinsic to Eugène Delacroix’s artistic practice: he wrote regularly about these concepts in his journal, and the tensions between the two were the subject of numerous paintings, including his most ambitious mural project, the ceiling of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies in the...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1991. — 215 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-608-8 This publication, illustrated with 16 color and 168 black-and-white plates, accompanies an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 10 to June 16, 1991. Nine museums and six private collections have lent to this presentation, which, given the riches of North American holdings,...
Florence: Flammarion. 1969. — 124 p. Les petits classiques de l'art. Hilaire Germain Edgar de Gas, dit Edgar Degas, né le 19 juillet 1834 à Paris et mort le 27 septembre 1917 dans la même ville, est un artiste peintre, graveur, sculpteur et photographe. Si le peintre est né sous le patronyme de De Gas, il n’a en réalité fait que reprendre le nom d’origine de sa famille1 en se...
New York: Time-Life Books Ink., 1972. — 208 p. Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1976. — 354 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-146-9 More than any other artist in the Impressionist group, Degas was fascinated by ideas and consciously based his work on them. "What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters," he once confessed, "of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament I know nothing." Yet his work has been...
London and New York, 2000. — 178 p. :il. Ingres Then, and Now is an innovative study of one of the best-known French artists of the nineteenth century, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Adrian Rifkin re-evaluates Ingres' work in the context of a variety of literary, musical and visual cultures which are normally seen as alien to him. Re-viewing Ingres' paintings as a series of...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1982. — 420 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-925-3 This book described artist works — The French Caravaggesque Painters, Georges de La Tour, Nicolas Poussin, The Generation of French Painters Who Resided in Italy, Painters from Lorraine and Provence, The Le Nain Brothers, The First School of Paris, Landscape: The Classical Tradition and the Appeal of the...
NBM Publishing, 2017. — 112 p. — ISBN: 978-1681121390. The life of the great French painter, one of the founders of Impressionism, is narrated in lush comic art reminiscent of his style. From the Salon des Refuses (“Salon of the Rejected”) and many struggling years without recognition, money, and yet a family to raise, all the way to great success, critically and financially,...
Alexandria: Time Inc., 1979. — 198 p. Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 1709 p. Camille Pissarro was a key figure in the history of Impressionism, being the only artist to show his work in all eight Impressionist exhibitions, remaining dedicated to the movement’s artistic beliefs. His paintings combine a fascination of rural subject matter with the empirical study of nature under different conditions of light and...
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 491 p. Revered by artists and collectors since the seventeenth century, Claude Lorrain was a master of landscape painting, raising the reputation of the art form to new heights. His paintings present idealised views of nature, governed by Classical concepts and fuelled by the inspiration of the Roman Campagna. Claude’s special contribution was the...
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 574 p. The principal exponent of the Neoclassical reaction against the Rococo style, Jacques-Louis David won wide acclaim with his huge canvases on classical themes. The appointed painter to Napoleon, David developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours, confirming his status as the most celebrated artist of his day. Delphi’s...
Morristown USA: Time Ink., 1968. — 188 p. Édouard Manet was a French 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.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1992. — 340 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-649-5 The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lille is home to one of the most impressive art collections in France, aside from the museums of Paris, but it is little known, and its treasures have remained largely unstudied. Originally part of a network of regional museums established in 1801 by Napoleon, through a...
Geneva: Editions d'Art Albert Skira. — 124 p. Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and graphic artist, went down in art history as one of the great colorists of the XX century.
New York: Time Inc., 1972. — 202 p. Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art.
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