Research Catalog

Title

The unknown Monet : pastels and drawings / James A. Ganz and Richard Kendall.

Author

Ganz, James A.

Publication

Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Kendall, Richard.
• Monet, Claude, 1840-1926
• Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.

Description

xi, 313 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map; 31 cm.

Summary

"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 new interpretation of the artist's life and work." "Citing recently discovered, unpublished documents that overturn the accepted image of the artist, The Unknown Monet reveals an extensive group of graphic works created over the course of the artist's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 volume is essential to anyone interested in his work, Impressionism, and nineteenth-century French culture."--Jacket.

Subject

• Art, French > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Mar. 17-June 10, 2007; and at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 24-Sept. 16, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-299) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Portrait of the artist as a young draftsman -- Oscar Monet, caricaturist -- Encounters with draftsmen, 1859-63 -- Drawing and painting, 1863-66 -- Monet's pastels in public -- Monet's pastels in private -- Rough drafts: the sketchbook drawings -- Drawing for the mass media -- Monet in print -- Lines of color: drawing in the late years -- Appendix: the Thornley-Monet portfolio.

ISBN

• 9780300118629 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0300118627 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780931102721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0931102723 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006039600

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Harvard Library