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The Unknown Monet - Pastels and Drawings (Hardcover)
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The Unknown Monet - Pastels and Drawings (Hardcover)
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved
painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and
exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet there remains a
previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly
significant role as a draftsman. This book is the first to focus on
Monet's pastels, drawings, and sketchbooks, offering a
revolutionary new interpretation of the artist's life and work.
Monet has long been seen as an anti-draftsman, an artist who
painted his subjects directly and whose rarely seen graphic works
were marginal to his artistic process. In an effort to develop his
public image, Monet denied the role of drawing in his working
method. In actuality, Monet began his career as a caricaturist and
as a teenager developed a passion for drawing that was never
extinguished. He went on to master the medium of pastel and
included seven in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.
Citing recently discovered, unpublished documents that overturn the
accepted image of the artist, The Unknown Monet reveals an
extensive group of graphic works created over the course of the
artist's career, many of which are unknown to the general public
and to scholars: beautiful pastels, stunning black chalk drawings,
and fascinating sketchbooks, which include pencil studies that
relate to many of his paintings. The book also shows how Monet
exploited the print media to promote his art. The most important
publication on Monet to appear in a generation, this illuminating
volume is essential to anyone interested in his work,
Impressionism, and nineteenth-century French culture. Distributed
for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,
Massachusetts Exhibition Schedule: Royal Academy of Arts, London
(March 17 - June 10, 2007) Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (June 24 - September 16,
2007)
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