A handsome volume exploring Delacroix’s works, his artistic contemporaries, and the generations of great artists he inspired
Eugène Delacroix (1789–1863), a dominant figure in 19th-century French art, was a complex and contradictory painter whose legacy is deep and enduring. This important, beautifully illustrated book considers Delacroix in his own time, alongside contemporaries such as Courbet, Fromentin, and the poet Charles Baudelaire, as well as his significant influence on successive generations of artists.
Delacroix’s paintings and his posthumously published Journals laid crucial groundwork for immediate successors including Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, and Renoir. Later admirers including Seurat, Gauguin, Moreau, Redon, Van Gogh, and Matisse renewed the obsession with his work. Through essays and catalogue entries, the authors demonstrate how Delacroix became mentor and archetype to younger generations who sought direction for their own creative experiments, and found inspiration in Delacroix’s brilliant use of color, audacious technique, and rebellious nature.
Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:Minneapolis Institute of Arts
(10/18/15–01/10/16)National Gallery, London
(02/17/16–05/22/16)
- ISBN10 1857095758
- ISBN13 9781857095753
- Publish Date 18 September 2015
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 January 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint National Gallery Company Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9781857095753