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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raoul Dufy(3 June 1877 ? 23 March 1953) was a FrenchFauvistpainter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics, textiles and decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. Raoul Dufy was born at Le Havre, in Normandy, one of a family of nine members. He left school at the age of 14 to work in a coffee importing company. In 1895 when he was 18, he started evening classes in art at Le Havre École des Beaux-Arts. He and Othon Friesz, a school friend, studied the works of Eugène Boudin in the museum in Le Havre. In 1900, after a year of military service, Raoul won a scholarship enabling him to attend the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, where he was a fellow student with Georges Braque. The impressionist landscapists, such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, influenced him. ... Read more

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TEXT PRISTINE - Text in French. ND; (c) 1927. Includes 52 reproductions of Boudin's paintings, watercolors and drawings. ... Read more

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The private art collection of Mrs. Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza is considered one of the most important in the world. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has published these two volumes to accompany the permanent exhibition of the International Collection, which includes 345 works of art by Brueghel, de Hooch, Van Goyen, Canaletto, Fragonard, Constable, Corot, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas, Van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin, Braque, Kandinsky, Nolde, Heckel, Hopper, Picasso, Juan Gris and others. Also included in two the volumes is a selection of works of art from a number of important 19th-century American artists such as Head, Bierstadt, Church, and Bricher.

Provided here is a fully documented analysis of the collection, including color illustrations and a summary profile for each work of art, as well as research analyses written by 87 international experts and field specialists. There is an introduction to each chapter written by Javier Arnaldo--the publisher of these volumes, and co-curator at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Volume 1 focuses on art from the 13th to 19th centuries, while Volume 2 looks at art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Combined, these two books feature 960 pages and some 270 beautifully-reproduced full-color images.

Edited by Javier Arnaldo.

Introduction by Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Foreword by Thomas Llorens.

Hardcover, 9.5 x 13 in./432 pgs / 165 color and 6 b&w. ... Read more

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Eugene Boudin (1824-98) was one of the most important precursors of Impressionism. he captured ever-changing skies and water to create masterly atmospheres.;It was Boudin who encouraged the young Monet, in 1858 to abandon the studio and to paint outdoors. Boudin stressed that everything painted directly and on the spot has a strength, a vigour, a vivacity of touch that can never be attained in the studio...Three brushstrokes from nature are worth more than 2 days' studio work.;In the early 1860s, Boudin began to paint the elegant summer visitors on the beach at Trouville. It is these paintings that were to bring him financial success and for which he is famous today. This book explores Boudin's particular fascination with Truville and reveals for the first time in English, this important French artist through his work. It focuses on his small, intricate paintings of holidaymakers and working people at the seaside resort and port; the fishermen, the docks and boatyards; the washerwomen on the banks of the river la Touques; and the wonderful landscapes surrounding Trouville and Deauville.;The book's introduction by Vivian Hamilton, Assistant Keeper of Fine Art, Glasgow mUseums, is followed by several short essays considering various aspects of Boudin's oeuvre. John House of the Courtauld Institute, London, Laurent Manoeuvre, Direction des Musees de France and Liz Arthur, Glasgow Museums, together explore Boudin's modernity and the role of his drawings and watercolours, and take a detailed look at the French fashionable costume of the period as documented in his work. ... Read more