"This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Musees d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie, Paris"--Colophon. Published on the occasion of the exhibition James Tissot: Fashion and Faith held at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, from October 12, 2019 to February 9, 2020, and at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, from March 23 to July 19, 2020. Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-315) and index. "James Tissot: Fashion and Death" : October 12, 2019-February 9, 2020, the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, United States. "James Tissot: Fashion and Death" : March 23-July 19, 2020, the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France.
Contents:
Tissot and Degas: Contours of a Friendship / Marine Kisiel. Donors and Lenders -- Introduction: the Mysterious World of James Tissot / Melissa E. Buron -- Appendices. -- James Tissot's Youth in Nantes / Cyrille Sciama -- 'One gram of Henri Leys, two grams of talent, zero grams of genius': Tissot's Early Paintings / Jan Dirk Baetens -- 'Love, Error, and Repentance': The Faust and Marguerite Paintings / Margaretta S. Frederick -- Tissot and the Traumas of the 'Terrible Year' / Bertrand Tillier -- Tissot and the French Market / Lea Saint-Raymond -- Looking Beyond Paris: Tissot's Reception in England during the 1860s / Peter Trippi -- Tissot's British Modern-Life Paintings / Nancy Rose Marshall -- Tissot's 'Genius' Picture-Selling in Britain / Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz -- Tissot's Houses in Saint John's Wood, London -- Charlotte Gere -- The Career of a Portrait Painter / Paul Perrin -- Tissot and Fashion / Justine de Young -- A Summer Dress with Yellow Ribbons / FrancŒois Tetart-Vittu -- The Visions of Tissot / Melissa E. Buron -- The Resurrection of Painting: Tissot and Cinema / Valentine Robert -- Final Years at the Builon Estates / Frederic Mantion -- Catalogue. -- Introduction to the Catalogue / Melissa E. Buron with Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz -- Medieval and Modern Life -- Portraits -- Japonisme and Chioisie -- Vanity Fair -- By the Water -- La Mysterieuse -- La Femme a Paris -- 'Twixt Two Worlds -- Appendices. -- 'All are clever, several are hideous': Tissot and His Prints in London / Donato Esposito -- 'Always in search of the exquisite in art': Tissot's Cloisonne Enamels / Krystyna Matyjaskiewicz -- Tissot's Painting Techniques / Sarah Kleiner -- Pigment Analysis -- Tissot and Degas: Contours of a Friendship / Marine Kisiel.
Summary:
"James Tissot (French, 1836-1902) was one of the most intriguing artists of his era. Though invited by Edgar Degas to exhibit with the Impressionist circle, Tissot instead garnered exceptional critical and commerical success on his own in London and Paris, securing his international reputation. While he is best known for his keen observations of society life and fashion, Tissot also made hundreds of spiritual and religious works that have since provided visual motifs for artists and filmmakers working to this day. Rendered with incredible detail, his compositions offer lays of meaning to lend rich insights into the vibrant culture of fin-de-siecle Europe. Published on the occasion of a major exhibiton at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, 'James Tissot'--the first extensive monographic volume on the artist to be produced in more than twenty years--provides new perspectives on his oeuvre and reexamines his place in the canon of late nineteenth-century art. His achievements are contextualized in nearly twenty original scholarly essays that address the artist today, alongside more than 150 lavish reproductions of his most important creations. This catalogue also features recently rediscovered archival material, including previously unknown compositions selected from a photograph album of paintings made by the artist, and his personal sales notebook, which has been transcribed and annotated here for the first time. A robust chronology, a conservation study of his materials and techniqueas, and a group of photographs taken at his chateau in Buillon, France, round out this volume to provide a dynamic portrait of an artist who is prime for a reconsideration in the twenty-first century." --publisher's description, dust jacket.
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