Mary Cassatt. An American Impressionist in Paris.
Mercator Fund| N° d'inventaire | 21143 |
| Format | 25 x 29 |
| Détails | 176 p., 105 color illustrations, hardcover. |
| Publication | Brussels, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789462302082 |
Considered the greatest American artist during her lifetime, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) still enjoys immense popularity in the United States, although she is somewhat forgotten in France today. Yet she lived there for over sixty years and spent her entire career there. The only American painter to have exhibited with the Impressionists in Paris, she was one of the leading figures of this avant-garde movement. The exhibition Mary Cassatt, An American Impressionist in Paris, presented at the Musée Jacquemart-André, is the first retrospective dedicated to her in France since her death. It brings together some fifty major works thanks to exceptional loans from the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Musée d'Orsay, the INHA, the BnF, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon. Oils, pastels and prints retrace Cassatt's story and reveal the modernity of her approach. This catalogue accompanying the exhibition presents the different facets of an artist with a complex career: a classically trained painter converted to Impressionism, a brilliant interpreter of the "modern Madonna", a tireless experimenter, Cassatt was also an ardent supporter of women's rights; This work restores Cassatt to her rightful place in the history of modern art.
Considered the greatest American artist during her lifetime, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) still enjoys immense popularity in the United States, although she is somewhat forgotten in France today. Yet she lived there for over sixty years and spent her entire career there. The only American painter to have exhibited with the Impressionists in Paris, she was one of the leading figures of this avant-garde movement. The exhibition Mary Cassatt, An American Impressionist in Paris, presented at the Musée Jacquemart-André, is the first retrospective dedicated to her in France since her death. It brings together some fifty major works thanks to exceptional loans from the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Musée d'Orsay, the INHA, the BnF, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon. Oils, pastels and prints retrace Cassatt's story and reveal the modernity of her approach. This catalogue accompanying the exhibition presents the different facets of an artist with a complex career: a classically trained painter converted to Impressionism, a brilliant interpreter of the "modern Madonna", a tireless experimenter, Cassatt was also an ardent supporter of women's rights; This work restores Cassatt to her rightful place in the history of modern art.