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Item Number: 132697
Title: GUSTAVE COURBET : Les années suisses
Author: Madeleine, Laurence (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782854955811
Description: Versailles: Art Lys, 2014. 30cm., hardcover, 270pp. illus. Exhibition held at Musee Rath, Geneve. French text. Summary: The last years that Gustave Courbet spent in Switzerland, from 23 July 1873 to 31 December 1877, the date of his death, have been neglected by art historians. Infirm, elderly, severely affected by the trial concerning the Vendôme column and by his exile and surrounded by zealous collaborators, Courbet would never again be the great artist who had revolutionised French and European painting from the end of the 1840s onwards. Yet Courbet continued to be Courbet: an active artist who painted, exhibited earlier or more recent work, met up with friends and was interested in the artistic and political life of his adopted country. The exhibition intends to go back over this part of his life, to reconsider its place in the painter’s career and to measure the impact that his presence on the shores of Lake Geneva had on the Swiss art scene.
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