Author: BRETTELL, RICHARD R. IMPRESSIONIST AND THE CITY: PISSARRO'S SERIES PAINTINGS (EXHIBITION) (1992-1993 : DALLAS. TEX, PHILADEPHIA, PA., LONDON)
Title: The impressionist and the city : Pissarro's series paintings
Description: New Haven : Yale University Press 1992. First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed. stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; liii. 234 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm. Notes; 'This catalogue was first published on the occasion of the exhibition 'The impressionist and the city: Pissarro's series paintings': Dallas Museum of Art. 15 November 1992-31 January 1993; Philadelphia Museum of Art. 7 March-6 June 1993; Royal Academy of Arts. London. 2 July-10 October 1993.'--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Camille Pissarro and urban view paintings; chronology; catalogue - 12 series and introductory essays; critical reception; selected letters. Summary; Camille Pissarro is perhaps best known for the landscape paintings of his early career. yet in the final decade of his life (1893-1903) he began to depict urban scenes and his paintings from this period. of Paris. Rouen and the busy ports of Dieppe and Le Havre formed an important component of his artistic output. At this time Pissarro. like Monet. started to work on canvases in series. ofthen pointing several simultaneously and discarding one temporarily when the light. the weather or his mood altered. He started all of them at the scene and worked with extraordinary speed and deftness. In this book. the authors set Pissarro's cityscapes in their broad art-historical context. looking also at contemporary treatments of the urban scene by Vuillard. Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec. Using Pissarro's extensive correspondence from this period. they reveal the artist's own attitude towards his final works. The book includes a catatogue of Pissarro's urban series. each one introduced by an overview covering the history of the cityscape pictured and the production. exhibition history and early critical reception of the series. This book is the catalogue for an exhibition of Pissarro's cityscape paintings at the Dallas Museum of Art (November 15. 1992 - January 31. 1993). The exhibition will then be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from March 7 to June 6. 1993 and at the Royal Academy in London from July 2 to October 10. 1993. Subjects; Pissarro. Camille (1830-1903) - Exhibitions. Pissarro. Camille (1830-1903) - Studies. Pissarro. Camille (1830-1903) - Contributions in urban landscape painting. Cities and towns in art. Painting - 19th century - France - Exhibitions. French Painting. Townscape painting. Towns and cities - Depictions. Towns and cities - France. Individual artists ; Painting & paintings ; Impressionism. Post-Impressionism. Art / History / General. Art / Individual Artists / General. Genres; Bibliography. Catalogue. Illustrated. ISBN: 0300054467. Weight in Kg appr.:

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