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Whistler & Montesquiou The Butterfly and the Bat

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Author(s)	Edgar Munhall
Editor	Flammarion	Place	Parigi
Year	1996	Pages	176
Measure	22x29 (cm)	Illustration	ill. a colori e b/n n.t. - colour and b/w ills
Binding	cart. edit. ill. colori - harcover	Conservazione	Usato buone condizioni- Used Good
Language	Inglese - English Text	Weight	1400 (gr)
ISBN	2080135775	EAN-13	9782080135773

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The artist James Abbot McNeill Whistler's portrait of the poet and dandy Robert de Montesquiou held a nine year friendship, from their initial meeting in 1885 to the first public exhibition of Whistler's portrait of Montesquiou in 1894. This portrait, Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou is a masterpiece of Whistler's unique symbolist-inspired style. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished archival material and correspondence (accompanied by a dazzling array of paintings, drawings, and engravings) Edgar Munhall uses this remarkable work as a starting point for exploring the development of Whistler's art, and in the process paints a delightful and fascinating portrait of the extraordinarily creative and sometimes bizarre avant-garde world of fin-de-siecle Paris and London. Usato Buone condizioni.