Aspects of Art in France
Delacroix to Picasso
Spring 2001
Cover Image: Albert Gleizes, Sur l'Avenue, 1920, oil on canvas
Théodore Géricault (Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris)
A Charging Polish Lancer, c. 1818
Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk
Signed on verso: Géricault (with inscription: Ant. Madeyski 16 rue(...)Paris(XVI)
Edgar Degas (Parisle 1834 - 1917 Paris)
Saint Jean Baptiste et l'ange, 1857 - 1858
Watercolor
Studio stamp "Degas", lower left/annotated "Rome", lower right
Odilon Redon (Bordeaux 1840 - 1916 Paris)
Christ au Croix (or St. Sebastien)
Pastel, with graphite, on brown wove paper with fibrous inclusions
Signed, towards lower right
Pierre Bonnard (Fontenay-aux-Roses 1867 - 1947 Cannet)
Misia à sa Chevelure, c. 1900
Watercolor
Louis Valtat (Dieppe 1869 - 1952 Paris)
Femme cousant, 1904
Oil on panel
Signed with initials, lower right
Henry Moret (Cherbourg 1856 - 1913 Paris)
Falaises de Kerserol-Finistère, 1909
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, also titled on original stretcher
André Lhote (Bordeaux 1885 - 1962 Paris)
Vue sur le Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, 1911
Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Signed and dated, "A. Lhote. 11", lower left
Henri Matisse (Cateau-Cambresis 1869 - 1954 Nice)
Odalisque voilée, 1925
Lithograph: edition of 50
Signed and numbered
This exhibition explores works on paper and paintings created by artists who worked and lived in France throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. Included are various works of art by Bonnard, Camoin, Delacroix, Luce, Moret, Rebeyrolle, and Valtat.
