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Anne Eisner: Images of the Congo.
LIGNER SARAH, WARREN Rosanna.

Anne Eisner: Images of the Congo.

Skira
€35,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 26532
Format 17 x 24
Détails 208 p., illustrated, paperback.
Publication Italy, 2023
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782370742018
Born in the United States, artist Anne Eisner (1911-1967) traveled to Africa in 1946 with her future husband, Patrick Putnam, founder of the Putnam Camp in Epulu, Congo under Belgian colonization (now the DRC), which welcomed tourists, ethnologists, and anthropologists. For seven years, Anne Eisner lived in Epulu, within a multi-ethnic community including the Mbuti pygmies living in the forest and the Bantu settled in the villages. These encounters fueled her inspiration. Her works painted on site focus primarily on the surrounding forest, in compositions marked by the effects of light and shadow. Returning to New York in 1954, Anne Eisner painted Africa from memory in a veritable creative explosion. Between 1956 and 1957, she depicted Mbuti and Bantu women in their daily tasks in a series of oil paintings and gouaches. Other later works demonstrate her taste for abstraction. Although little-known, Anne Eisner's work and career are now receiving deserved recognition.

This work, the French version of an English book published in 2005, extends the exhibition organized at the Musée du Quai Branly and celebrates the arrival of these new works in the museum's collections.
Born in the United States, artist Anne Eisner (1911-1967) traveled to Africa in 1946 with her future husband, Patrick Putnam, founder of the Putnam Camp in Epulu, Congo under Belgian colonization (now the DRC), which welcomed tourists, ethnologists, and anthropologists. For seven years, Anne Eisner lived in Epulu, within a multi-ethnic community including the Mbuti pygmies living in the forest and the Bantu settled in the villages. These encounters fueled her inspiration. Her works painted on site focus primarily on the surrounding forest, in compositions marked by the effects of light and shadow. Returning to New York in 1954, Anne Eisner painted Africa from memory in a veritable creative explosion. Between 1956 and 1957, she depicted Mbuti and Bantu women in their daily tasks in a series of oil paintings and gouaches. Other later works demonstrate her taste for abstraction. Although little-known, Anne Eisner's work and career are now receiving deserved recognition.

This work, the French version of an English book published in 2005, extends the exhibition organized at the Musée du Quai Branly and celebrates the arrival of these new works in the museum's collections.