From Renoir to Picasso; artists in action / by Michel Georges-Michel. With fifty illustrations by or of those artists. Translated by Dorothy and Randolph Weaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Georges-Michel, Michel, 1883-1985.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Painters.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

[First American edition].

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1957 [©1954]

Contents:

From Monsieur de Gas to Count Toulouse-Lautrec

From Monet's rainbow palette to Renoir's rosy flesh-tints

In the claws of the fauves

Six sides of the cube

From the snows of Moscow to the bright lights of the Russian ballet

Reality of the unrealists

Unreality of the surrealists

In the teeming jungle of Montparnasse

Past of the futurists

Picaresques

In the world of the society painters

Lithographers and engravers

In the shadow of Utrillo's tragic drunkenness

Two methods in oils

Salad generation

Sculptors.

Notes:

"It has not been my intention in these pages to write either a book of art criticism or a series of biographical sketches. My aim has been simply to record some of the conversations I have had over the last fifty years with a great many artists at different periods of their lives."--Foreword.

Other Format:

Online version: Georges-Michel, Michel, 1883-1985. From Renoir to Picasso.

OCLC:

2663926