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Delacroix Pastels

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This volume gathers together all the extant pastels of Eugene Delacroix (1798-1862), the leader of the French Romantic movement in painting, the greatest colorist and the most versatile master of the first half of the nineteenth century. These beautiful pastels, housed in collections from London to Los Angeles to Cairo, are rarely exhibited due to their fragility. Published here as a group for the first time in full color, they provide sheer visual delight as well as enormous insight into Delacroix's endlessly inventive working methods. In his comprehensive introduction, Lee Johnson discusses Delacroix's interest in the medium of pastel and its place in his oeuvre as a whole, from the first reference to the technique in one of his school exercise books through his last known pastel, a finely wrought, signed version of one of his favorite compositions, "The Education of Achilles", which he presented to George Sand in 1862. Professor Johnson then treats the pastels in groups, such as studies for paintings, scenes from literature and mythology, North African scenes, and landscapes, flowers, and sky studies; in each case, he includes a full description and provenance of the work.


191 pages / George Braziller Inc.


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This activity is funded by The Arts Partnership,
with support from the Cities of Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo.
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This activity is funded in part by a grant from the Lake Region Arts Council through a Minnesota state legislative appropriation.
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This project is supported in part by a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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    • Image Transfers - Virtual Class
    • Single-Layer Linoleum Cut - Virtual Class
    • Three-Layer Linoleum Cut - Virtual Class
    • Cardboard Prints - Virtual Class
    • Intro to Collage - Virtual Class
    • Wheat Paste - Virtual Class
    • Plexiglas Drypoint - Virtual Class
    • Instant Books - Virtual Class
    • Post and Screw Books - Virtual Class
    • The Sketchbook - Virtual Class
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