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A magnificent library of monographs dedicated to presenting the work of the greatest painters, sculptors and architects of all time. Each volume, based on the latest research, is written by a leading authority, and contains a biography, a critical appraisal of the work, and fully documented notes on each plate.
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TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
MARIA CIONINI VISANI
Toulouse-Lautrec, born in 1864, was one of the most extraordinary figures to emerge in French art in the post-impressionist generation. When he moved to Paris in 1882 he quickly became well-known in the artistic world of Montmartre. Here, as a painter of Parisian life, he developed a new and vital style — deeply influenced by Degas and the new pictorial conventions of Japanese prints — which was to typify a whole epoch. His first posters brought him immediate recognition, and he held his own one-man exhibitions in 1893 and 1896, but, weakened by excessive drinking, he... Tovább

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DOLPHIN ART BOOKS
95p net in U.K. only
A magnificent library of monographs dedicated to presenting the work of the greatest painters, sculptors and architects of all time. Each volume, based on the latest research, is written by a leading authority, and contains a biography, a critical appraisal of the work, and fully documented notes on each plate.
80 COLOUR PLATES
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
MARIA CIONINI VISANI
Toulouse-Lautrec, born in 1864, was one of the most extraordinary figures to emerge in French art in the post-impressionist generation. When he moved to Paris in 1882 he quickly became well-known in the artistic world of Montmartre. Here, as a painter of Parisian life, he developed a new and vital style — deeply influenced by Degas and the new pictorial conventions of Japanese prints — which was to typify a whole epoch. His first posters brought him immediate recognition, and he held his own one-man exhibitions in 1893 and 1896, but, weakened by excessive drinking, he died in 1901 when he was only 39. Like Degas, he refused to be intimidated by taboos on subject matter, drawing his material from circuses and music-halls, the cafés of Montmartre and the Paris brothels. His technical range was wide: he was a superb draughtsman and could convey movement, character and atmosphere in a few bold strokes. In the new medium of poster art he had no rival; his unique use of colour lithography established a style which was to shape the whole development of graphic art. Vissza