| Description |
255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
A gallery of living artists : Alfred Bruyas as patron / Michel Hilaire -- Bruyas versus Courbet : the meeting / Sylvain Amic -- Bruyas, Paris, and Montpellier : artistic center and periphery / Ting Chang -- Signac's visit to the Bruyas collection / Francoise Cachin |
| Summary |
Gustave Courbet's 1854 painting The Meeting (also known as Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!) depicts his greatest patron, Alfred Bruyas (1821-1877), welcoming the artist to his hometown of Montpellier, in the south of France. As one of the foremost collectors of contemporary art in France, Bruyas's tastes ranged from romanticism to realism, and he collected both traditional and what was then avant-garde art. This beautifully illustrated book features ninety-four works from Bruyas's celebrated collection, including nine masterpieces by Courbet as well as important paintings, drawings, and sculptures by such leading French artists of the period as Delacroix, Ingres, Gericault, Millet, Corot, Rousseau, and Barye. The accompanying texts examine Bruyas's role as one of the few mid-nineteenth-century private collectors of contemporary art and the significance of his patronage of living artists as well as the well-known but little-scrutinized relationship between Bruyas and Courbet. A newly discovered critique of the renowned collection, written by the influential artist Paul Signac some twenty years after Bruyas's death, is also presented |
| Notes |
Exhibition catalogue: Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Va., 26 March-13 June 2004; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., 27 June-6 September 2004; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Tex., 17 October 2004-2 January 2005; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Calif., 22 January-3 April 2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Bruyas, Alfred, 1821-1877 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
|
|
Musée Fabre -- Exhibitions.
|
|
Art, French -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
|
|
Art -- Private collections -- France -- Montpellier -- Exhibitions.
|
| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
|
|
Exhibition catalogs.
|
|
Exhibition catalogs.
|
| Author |
Lees, Sarah.
|
|
Hilaire, Michel.
|
|
Amic, Sylvain.
|
|
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
|
| LC no. |
2004090345 |
| ISBN |
2711847780 paperback : trade edition, France |
|
0931102588 paperback : museum edition, USA |
|
0300105231 cloth trade edition |
|
