De Puvis de Chavannes À Matisse et Picasso, vers l’art moderne (Book)

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De Puvis de Chavannes à Matisse et Picasso, vers l’art moderne / From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso, towards modern art (Book) by Serge Lemoine. Like New – 566 pages. 2004. Hardcover. Publisher Flammarion. Delivery time: 15 days, French version.

The catalog From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso, Towards modern art presents a new history of 20th century art, directly linked to that of the end of the previous century, neither breaking with this period, nor arising from the ‘impressionism and Cézanne.

It brings to the fore the art of a French painter, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) who, in his murals as in his easel paintings, invented a completely new and at the same time plastic and poetic style. on tradition. His compositions like L’Espérance, his decorations of the Sorbonne and the Pantheon in Paris, those of the Musée de Lyon deeply influenced all his contemporaries and the generations of artists who followed, at the forefront of which are Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin and even Paul Cézanne for the Bathers series. At the same time, most of the symbolist painters in Europe, from Munch to Hodler, owed him their art, as did the Nabis, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton and the sculptor Maillol.

In the 20th century, his most prestigious disciples were named Matisse and Picasso, who remained loyal to him all their lives. Studies by the best current specialists take stock of the art of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and all these filiations, in a catalog widely illustrated and containing a very important documentation on the eighty-nine artists represented in this exhibition.