Offered is a copy of a hard covered copy of a major art show's catalog:DELACROIX The Late Work, taken from the Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibit, September 15, 1998 - January 3, 1999.Celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in Paris and the Philadelphia Museum of Art have organized Delacroix: The Late Work, an exhibition of some seventy paintings and forty works of art on paper from public and private collections around the world. This will be the first exhibition in a decade to examine the great genius of Delacroix.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, quite "modern." Evidence of Delacroix's modernity comes in the form of the reverence given to him by those artists of the following generations who were so profoundly influenced by his work—Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse. With 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 personal recollection than with the expansive narrative that characterized his grand public commissions.
Blue cloth covered boards, with gilt text on the spine and gilt decorations on the front cover, light grey end papers, credit for publishing is given to Thames and Hudson, and other credit is given to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Galeris Nationales du Grand Palais, of Paris where the exhibition was shown. Approximately 9 1/2" x 12 1/4", a coffee table book, with 408 pages. Dust cover features detail of the work Tiger Hunt of 1854 found in the Musée d'Orsay. 416 illustrations, 161 of which are in color.
The book is in great condition, with clean pages and a tight binding. There is no writing that I could find. The dust cover shows a little wear with small tears and folds along the edges, mostly at the points where the jacket folds around the boards, and particularly at the upper edge.
Let me know if you have any questions and thanks for considering this catalog!
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Product Identifiers
ISBN-10 0876331223
ISBN-13 9780876331224
Key Details
Author Arlette Serullaz, Eugene Delacroix, France Staff Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Philadelphia Museum of Art Staff
Format Hardcover
Publication Date 1998-09-01
Language English
Publisher Philadelphia Museum of Art
Additional Details
Original Language French
Classification Method
LCCN 98-026927
LC Classification Number ND553.D33A4 1998
Dewey Decimal 759.4
