René Magritte - Catalogue raisonné, tome 1 : Oil Paintings 1916-1930 - Couverture rigide

Sylvester, David; Whitfield, Sarah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 2080125079 ISBN 13 : 9782080125071

Editeur : Flammarion, 1992

Synopsis

Illustrations en noir & blanc. Catalogue raisonné, tome 1 : Oil Paintings 1916-1930 Early works of Magritte, systematic survey of the artist's oil paintings. 389 entries 416 pp. Slipcase missing. /Premières œuvres de Magritte (huiles). 416 pp. Illustrated in black and white.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Belgian painter René Magritte (1898-1967) was an outstanding figure in the Surrealist movement and is surely one of this century's major artists. Since the 1960s his work has had a massive and continuing influence, not only on art, but on the imagery of popular culture.

The first of five projected volumes on Magritte's work is written by David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield and presents a systematic survey of the artist's oil paintings produced during the years 1916 to 1930. The volume is made up of two sections. The first consists of an illustrated detailed chronology of the artist's career and the second includes 333 illustrated entries which discuss the dating, genesis and history of the work. Substantial extracts are included from Magritte's largely unpublished correspondence, given both in the original French and in English translation. In addition, there follows an appendix consisting of fifty untraced works of which there is no photographic record.

The subsequent four volumes, to be published in 1993, cover Magritte's oil paintings and objects of 1931-1948 (Volume II), oil paintings, objects and sculptures of 19491967 (Volume III), works in water-based media (gouaches, temperas, watercolours and papiers collés) of 1920-1967 (Volume IV) and, finally, an annotated bibliography, supplement and indices (Volume V). Volume II is written by David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield ; Volumes III and IV are by Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn. All five volumes are edited by David Sylvester.

Biographie de l'auteur :

David Sylvester has been curator or co-curator of three major Magritte retrospectives in Europe and America, the first of them at the Tate Gallery in 1969. He published a short monograph in 1969 and a full-length one in 1992. He has also directed a film, Magritte : the false mirror (1969). His best known publication is The Brutality o f Fact : Interviews with Francis Bacon.

Sarah Whitfield is the author of a number of publications including Fauvism (1991) ; the catalogue of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, an exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, 1991, and the catalogue for the Magritte exhibition in London, New York, Houston and Chicago, 1992-1993.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Flammarion
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 2080125079
• ISBN 13: 9782080125071
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400