Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Time of William Burrell

Fowle Frances

ISBN 10: 1781301298 / ISBN 13: 9781781301296

Edité par Philip Wilson Publishers, 2024

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• Titre: Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Time of William Burrell
• Éditeur: Philip Wilson Publishers
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1781301298
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781781301296
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

A beautifully illustrated study of the works by Edgar Degas in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow.

In 1874 the first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris, shocking the art world with a radical new style of painting. Capturing contemporary subjects and everyday life, the 'Impressionist' artists were fascinated by the way light, colour and shape constantly change. But frequent rejection by the Paris Salon jury led some, including Edgar Degas, to look to Britain for a more receptive audience.

This richly illustrated book explores the influence of London-based dealers such as Ernest Gambart and Charles Deschamps, and Glasgow-based dealer Alex Reid, who saw the market for French art in Britain, encouraging an early following among British collectors for artists such as Monet, Pissarro, Manet and Degas.

William Burrell's first opportunity to see Degas's work on public display in Scotland was at the 1888 International Exhibition in Glasgow. Over a 40-year period Burrell collected more than 20 of Degas's works, far more than any other UK collector, before he and his wife Constance donated their entire collection to the City of Glasgow. This book accompanies a major exhibition at the Burrell Collection, in which all of Burrell's Degas pictures are displayed together for the first time, along with important works from national and international collections.

Detailed catalogue entries look at the artist's talent for capturing subjects such as the ballet, racehorses, and women bathing and dressing, giving a greater insight into why British collectors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries purchased these enduringly appealing works. This is also an important opportunity to understand Degas in his entirety, both as a brilliant artist and as a man whose opinions and ideas would not go unchallenged today.

À propos des auteurs

Pippa Stephenson-Sit is Curator of European Art, Glasgow Life Museums. Her research interests span the astonishing breadth of the Museums' European fine art collection, including Spanish sixteenth-century portraiture, French nineteenth-century painting and sculpture, and the work of Salvador Dalí. She is the author of Introducing Auguste Rodin (2022).

Dr Martin Bellamy is the Research and Curatorial Manager at Glasgow Life Museums and was part of the team that redeveloped the award-winning Burrell Collection museum. He is the co-author of William Burrell: A Collector's Life (2022).

Dr Yupin Chung is Curator of East Asian Art, Glasgow Life Museums, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow. Her research centres on the interaction of art and economics, with a particular interest in the influence of Western collectors and dealers on the Asian art market and museum collections. She is the author of The Burrell at Kelvingrove: Collecting Chinese Treasures (2019).

Frances Fowle is emeritus professor of Nineteenth-Century Art at the University of Edinburgh. She previously combined academia with her role as senior curator of French art at the National Galleries of Scotland. She specializes in impressionism, collecting and the art market.

Vivien Hamilton is Research Manager (Art) for Glasgow Life Museums. She is an expert in French nineteenth-century art, author of several books on the subject, and co-author of Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell Collection (2017).