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Léon Monet. Brother of the artist and collector - Exhibition catalogue

Léon Monet. Brother of the artist and collector - Exhibition catalogue

Written in French.

The catalogue highlights the close relationship between the two Monet brothers and the role that Léon played as a promoter of the Impressionist painters at the beginning of their careers. It brings together a wealth of previously unpublished iconography, showing all the works in Léon's ...
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Characteristics

Number of illustrations :
175
Museum :
Musée du Luxembourg
Art movement :
Impressionism
Dimensions :
18,7 x 26,9 x 2,4 cm
Artists :
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Claude Monet (1840-1926), Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
EAN :
9782711879656
Size of the book :
Bound full paper without cover
Reference :
EC407965

Editor

Editor :
RMNGP
Diffusor :
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Distributor :
EDITIONS FLAMMARION

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The artist

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

A major figure in Impressionism, Berthe Morisot remains less well known today than his friends Monet, Degas and Renoir. Yet she was immediately recognized as one of the group's most innovative artists. Painting after a model allows Berthe Morisot to explore several themes of modern life, such as the intimacy of bourgeois life, the taste for resorts and gardens, the importance of fashion, women's domestic work, while blurring the boundaries between interior/exterior, private/public, finished/unfinished. For her, painting must strive to "fix something of what is going on". Modern subjects and speed of execution therefore have to do with the temporality of representation, and the artist is tirelessly confronted with the ephemeral and the passage of time. Thus his latest works, characterized by a new expressiveness and musicality, invite us to a melancholic mediation on these relationships between art and life.