Weisman and Michel Collection. Fin de siècle - Belle Époque (1880-1916).
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 22099 |
| Format | 19 x 26.5 |
| Détails | 224 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754111201 |
Bilingual edition (French-English). The Musée de Montmartre presents for the first time in its entirety the important Collection of David E. Weisman and Jacqueline E. Michel. A unique and rare collection comprising approximately 150 pieces (drawings, paintings, watercolors, pastels, posters and lithographs) created by the artists whose art gave Montmartre its universal reputation. By focusing their selection on the period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1880-1914), the American collectors David E. Weisman and Jacqueline E. Michel paint with this corpus the portrait of an eclectic Montmartre where creativity and the beauty of the snapshot triumph. After the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War of 1871, France rediscovered a certain insouciance marked by great economic successes. It was thus a time of freedom and intense cultural abundance where celebration was in the spotlight. An independent district of Paris would become its symbol: Montmartre! The café-concerts, cabarets, circuses, streets and squares would be true sources of inspiration for artists who wished to break away from academic art. Ibels, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec, Anquetin, Grasset, Rivière, Chéret, Faverot, Carrière, Valtat, Valadon and Willette… present in the collection with several works, are famous witnesses. Théophile Alexandre Steinlen and Suzanne Valadon hold an important place in the collection with a large number of works. Works by Pierre Bonnard, Georges Rouault, Louis Valtat and Eugène Grasset were patiently sought out to complete the testimony on this avant-garde period. Engravings, illustrations, newspapers from the period complete the collection and immerse the visitor in the Montmartre of yesteryear.
Bilingual edition (French-English). The Musée de Montmartre presents for the first time in its entirety the important Collection of David E. Weisman and Jacqueline E. Michel. A unique and rare collection comprising approximately 150 pieces (drawings, paintings, watercolors, pastels, posters and lithographs) created by the artists whose art gave Montmartre its universal reputation. By focusing their selection on the period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1880-1914), the American collectors David E. Weisman and Jacqueline E. Michel paint with this corpus the portrait of an eclectic Montmartre where creativity and the beauty of the snapshot triumph. After the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War of 1871, France rediscovered a certain insouciance marked by great economic successes. It was thus a time of freedom and intense cultural abundance where celebration was in the spotlight. An independent district of Paris would become its symbol: Montmartre! The café-concerts, cabarets, circuses, streets and squares would be true sources of inspiration for artists who wished to break away from academic art. Ibels, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec, Anquetin, Grasset, Rivière, Chéret, Faverot, Carrière, Valtat, Valadon and Willette… present in the collection with several works, are famous witnesses. Théophile Alexandre Steinlen and Suzanne Valadon hold an important place in the collection with a large number of works. Works by Pierre Bonnard, Georges Rouault, Louis Valtat and Eugène Grasset were patiently sought out to complete the testimony on this avant-garde period. Engravings, illustrations, newspapers from the period complete the collection and immerse the visitor in the Montmartre of yesteryear.