William Bouguereau 1825-1905
text by Therese Burollet, Mark Steven Walker, Gilles Chazal, Georges Brunel, Louise d'Argencourt, Robert Isaacson
8vo. pp. 266, [5]. French text. 277 illustrations. bibliography. paperback wrs. (very good - extremities scuffed & rubbed, corners creased, horizontal tear to spine). Montreal: Musee des Beaux-Arts, [1984].
ISBN'S associated with this title:
ISBN-10: 2905028009 & 2891920473 / ISBN-13: 9782905028006 & 9782891920476
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Exhibition catalogue. Travelling to Musee du Petit-Palais, Paris, 9 Feb.-6 May 1984, Montreal, Musee des Beaux-Arts 22 June-23 Sept. 1984 & The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 27 Oct.-13 Jan. 1985.
The official catalogue of the 1984 Paris-Montreal exhibition that helped restore some of the luster to Bouguereau's reputation. It contains several critical essays and dozens of reproductions as well as drawings, sketches, compositional studies and tracings providing unique insight into this extrodinary artist. A must-have for art historians, art teachers and students alike.