• monograph
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26 x 20 cm.
  • 352 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 069109960X

Cézanne and America : Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics. 1891 - 1921.

Paul Cézanne, John Rewald

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Monograph on French Impressionist Paul Cézanne. "John Rewald, the internationally acclaimed Cézanne scholar, presents here for the first time a full account of how the artist's reputation and influence became established in America between 1891 and 1921, and of how some of the world's largest collections of Cézanne's works were formed in the United States. Recounted in Rewald's characteristically urbane and masterly style, this is the fascinating story of enthusiastic young American artists who took up Cézanne's cause after they 'discovered' him in Paris. It is also the story of those discerning early American collectors of his work, Leo and Gertrude Stein, the Havemeyers and John Quinn, among others - many of whom made their first purchase from Cézanne's wily dealer Vollard, or from the dealer Alfred Stieglitz in America - and the beginning of the famous collection of Dr. Albert C. Barnes. Rewald discusses the exhibitions at which Cézanne's works were first shown and describes the outraged reactions of all but a few of the American critics. Several chapters are devoted to the important Armory Show of 1913. Throughout Rewald's witty, precise and meticulous text runs a compelling narrative. This is a story in which all the characters, like characters in a novel, revolve around the absent protagonist, Cézanne. Each chapter is copiously illustrated, not only with Cézanne's works but also with portraits of collectors and critics and with previously unpublished pages from diaries, dealers' ledgers and Cézanne's own correspondence. Cézanne and America is based on John Rewald's 1979 A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C." -- from interior flap. Includes 193 illustrations, 16 in color. Also includes list of illustrations and an index.

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