Color, line, light
Subtitle: French drawings, watercolors, and pastels from Delacroix to Signac
By: Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Andrew Robison, volume editors ; introduction by Richard R. Brettell ; essays by Victor Carlson, Elizabeth Easton, Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Margaret Morgan Grasselli
Contributors: National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Musée des impressionnismes (Giverny, France)
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780894683763; 9783791352282
Subjects: Drawing; Art collections; Exhibitions; French Watercolor painting; French Drawing; Watercolor painting; Private collections
Description: Spanning the period from romanticism to neo-impressionism, this book reveals the extraordinary richness, diversity, and inventiveness that fueled a remarkably creative period of French drawing--called "the paper century" in the opening essay. Brilliant drawings, watercolors, and pastels by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat as well as by many of their peers allow for a close inspection of such key nineteenth-century artistic movements as romanticism, realism, impressionism, the art of the Nabis and symbolists, and neo-impressionism.
Notes: The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art in association with the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny.

Includes bibliographical references and index.