Видатні художники. Monet or The Triumph of Impressionism. Daniel Wildenstein

Даніель Вільденштейн (1917-2001) був мистецтвознавцем і членом Академії витончених мистецтв (Париж). З 1939 року він був директором галерей Вільденштейна в Нью-Йорку, Лондоні і Токіо. Він редагував кілька міжнародних журналів, наприклад. журнал Arts з 1956 по 1962 рік і Gazette des Beaux-Arts після 1963 року. У 1970 році він став співзасновником Фонду Вільденштейна (у 1984 році він був перейменований в Інститут Вільденштейна) і був одним з перших учасників багатьох виставок з міжнародною репутацією. Даніель Вільденштейн також редагував каталоги-raisonnés різних художників 18, 19 і 20 століть. Він був світовим авторитетом в області імпресіонізму і видавав каталоги творів Гогена, Мане і Моне.

Master of the Sublime. The essential Impressionist

Along with Turner, no artist has sought more than Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed completely true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from the object.

It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of colour, and whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints, his time in the осліплюють light of Algeria as a conscript or his personal acquaintance with the major painters of the late 1800s, what Monet produced throughout his long life would change forever the way we perceive both the natural world and its attendant phenomena. The high point of his explorations were the late series of waterlilies, painted in his own garden at Giverny, that, in their moves towards almost total formlessness, are really the origin of abstract art.

This biography does full justice to this most remarkable and profoundly influential of artists and offers numerous reproductions and archive photos alongside a detailed and insightful commentary.

The author:

Daniel Wildenstein (1917-2001) was an art historian and member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts (Paris). From 1939 onwards, he was Director of the Wildenstein Galleries of New York, London and Tokyo. He edited several international journals, e.g. the Arts magazine from 1956-1962 and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts after 1963. He co-founded the Fondation Wildenstein in 1970 (it was renamed the WildensteinInstitute in 1984), and was a prime mover in many exhibitions of international repute. Daniel Wildenstein also the edited catalogues raisonnés of various 18th, 19th and 20th-century artists. He was a world authority on Impressionism, and published catalogues of the works of Gauguin, Manet and Monet.