delacroix late work grand palais de sérullaz arlette vincent promarède joseph (1 résultats)

Paperbound. Etat : New. First Impression. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 79. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . CAA Reviews noted: "I am in that phase of life when the tumult of the mad passions does not mingle with the delightful emotions which works of art give to me. I don't know the meaning of dusty papers and hateful occupations, which is what almost all human beings must devote themselves to; instead of thinking of business, I think only of Rubens and Mozart: my great business, for a week, is the memory of an aria or a picture. I go to my work as others hasten to their mistress, and when I leave it, I carry away into my solitude or amidst the distraction which I go to seek, a charming memory which has but little resemblance to the troubled pleasure of lovers." -Journal of Eugene Delacroix, November 30, 1853; Pach translation Thus wrote Delacroix, aged fifty-five, characterizing his state of mind as a mature human being and artist. Internationally renowned, medaled, and financially independent, the practice of art was no longer a necessity but a labor of lovelucrative, to be sure, but self-satisfying and all absorbing. It is this Delacroixmature and apparently serene and dispassionatewho has become better known and more clearly defined through the recent exhibition and catalogue Delacroix: The Late Work. . The exhibition was one of several that marked the bicentennial of the birth of the artist in 1798, and the only one that was seen in this country. Organized jointly by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, it comprised some one hundred and fifty paintings, drawings, and watercolors dating from about 1850 to the artist's death in 1863.