In perfect harmony
Subtitle: picture + frame, 1850-1920
By: Eva Mendgen ... [et al.]
Contributors: Mendgen, Eva A.; Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh.; Kunstforum Wien.
Publisher: Van Gogh Museum; Waanders Uitgevers; University of Washington Press [distributor]
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Zwolle; [Seattle, Wash.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Picture frames and framing -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Picture + frame, 1850-1920; Picture & frame, 1850-1920; Picture and frame, 1850-1920
Description: According to Vincent van Gogh, a painting was not really finished until it was framed; unmounted it was still 'in the raw'. He and many of his contemporaries regarded picture and frame as an aesthetic whole and chose or designed their own frames.

Chapters on Historicism, the Victorians and Pre-Raphaelites, the Secessionist movements (Art Nouveau, Symbolism), Impressionism, and early Modernism examine the relationship between picture and frame in the years 1850 and 1920.

Hundreds of works have been illustrated for the first time with their frames - paintings by Arnold Bocklin, Franz von Stuck, Gustav Klimt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederic Lord Leighton, James McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Jan Toorop, Fernand Khnopff, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, and many others.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-273) and index.
This book coincides with the exhibition held in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 31 March-25 June 1995 and the Kunstforum Wien 24 August-19 November 1995.
Table of contents: title: A shelter for paintings / Wolfgang Kemp; title: Patinated or burnished / Eva Mendgen; title: Victorian frames / Lynn Roberts; title: James McNeill Whistler / Eva Mendgen; title: Art or decoration / Eva Mendgen; title: Edgar Degas / Isabelle Cahn; title: Camille Pissarro / Matthias Waschek; title: Georges Seurat / Matthias Waschek; title: Framing van Gogh / Louis van Tilborgh; title: White, blue and gold / Edwin Becker; title: In perfect harmony? / Christine Traber.