The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume IX: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Drawings

Author:   Richard R. Brettell ,  Françoise Forster-Hahn ,  Duncan Robinson ,  Janis Tomlinson
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
ISBN:  

9780691114156


Pages:   480
Publication Date:   26 January 2003
Format:   Hardback
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The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume IX: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Drawings


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Robert Lehman was a member of the first generation of American collectors to embrace what we call modern art. This lavishly illustrated volume catalogues 207 nineteenth- and twentieth-century European drawings that are now part of the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. More than three-quarters of these drawings are French, but there are also sheets from Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. Most are from the nineteenth century, but Robert Lehman also acquired, in some cases from the artists themselves, a number of drawings made during his own lifetime. The catalogue begins with drawings by David and Goya, the two most important artists in Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century, and it concludes with a group of watercolors made in the 1940s by the painter Marcel Vertes. Among the French drawings are outstanding sheets by David, Delacroix, Ingres, Chasseriau, Corot, and Daumier. Drawings by Renoir, Morisot, Sisley, Pissarro, and Degas represent the Impressionists, and Robert Lehman also assembled one of the finest private collections of Neo-Impressionist drawings, including canonical works by Seurat, Signac, Cross, and Pissarro. Entries by four specialists elucidate various aspects of the drawings. The volume features an extensive bibliography and an index.

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Author:   Richard R. Brettell ,  Françoise Forster-Hahn ,  Duncan Robinson ,  Janis Tomlinson
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   2.070kg
ISBN:  

9780691114156


ISBN 10:   0691114153
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   26 January 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Language:   English

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Richard R. Brettell's introduction to the catalog [is] a remarkably candid and finely written account of Lehman's career as a collector... Both in this introductory essay and in his commentaries on individual drawings, Brettell's contributions to this catalog are indeed exemplary. -- Hilton Kramer Art & Antiques There are many nuggets of interesting information contained in the entries... Each drawing has been carefully researched and analyzed. Choice


Richard R. Brettell's introduction to the catalog [is] a remarkably candid and finely written account of Lehman's career as a collector... Both in this introductory essay and in his commentaries on individual drawings, Brettell's contributions to this catalog are indeed exemplary. -- Hilton Kramer, Art & Antiques There are many nuggets of interesting information contained in the entries... Each drawing has been carefully researched and analyzed. -- Choice


Richard R. Brettell's introduction to the catalog [is] a remarkably candid and finely written account of Lehman's career as a collector... Both in this introductory essay and in his commentaries on individual drawings, Brettell's contributions to this catalog are indeed exemplary. -- Hilton Kramer, Art & Antiques There are many nuggets of interesting information contained in the entries... Each drawing has been carefully researched and analyzed. -- Choice


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Richard R. Brettell is Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Francoise Forster-Hahn is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Riverside. Duncan Robinson is Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University. Janis A. Tomlinson is Director of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

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