Jean-Louis Forain
Subtitle: la Comédie parisienne
By: Florence Valdès-Forain ; with Joëlle Raineau and Céline Coutin ; and a postcript by Plantu ; [edited by Amy Teschner ; translated by Iva Olah]
Contributors: Valdès-Forain, Florence, 1961-; Raineau, Joëlle; Coutin, Céline; Plantu; Teschner, Amy; Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, France); Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Edition: [English ed.].
Publisher: Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Memphis, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780981891231
Subjects: Impressionism (Art); Exhibitions
Other titles: Comédie parisienne
Notes: "This publication was written and produced in conjunction with the exhibition Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931): La Comédie parisienne, on view at the Petit Palais, Musée des beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris from 10 March through 5 June 2011, and as Jean-Louis Forain: La Comédie parisienne at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis from 26 June through 9 October 2011."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Dixon Gallery and Garden and Jean-Louis Forain  -- Keven Sharp; title: Bohemian life and literary friendships  -- Florence Valdès-Forain; title: The most incisive impressionist  -- Florence Valdès-Forain; title: At the opera  -- Florence Valdès-Forain; title: Chronicle of a Parisian life outdoors  -- Joëlle Raineau; title: Social mores - in caricature and lithography  -- Florence Valdès-Forain; title: Forain's work at the Café Riche  -- Florence Valdès-Forain; title: The polemicists: graphic and pictorial violence  -- Florence Valdès-Forain; title: Forain and the Dreyfus Affair  -- Florence Valdès-Forain; title: Spiritual quests  -- Florence Valdès-Forain and Joëlle Raineau; title: Forain in uniform, 1914-1918  -- Céline Coutin; title: The nudes: from naturalism to the exaltation of sensuality  -- Florence Valdès-Forain; title: Portraits and self-portraits  -- Florence Valdès-Forain; title: the final work: the dazzling 1920s  -- Florence Valdès-Forain; title: Forain's image anthologies  -- Joëlle Raineau; title: Forain seen by Plantu -- Plantu.