Tissot occupies a unique and ambivalent place in 19th-century painting: a Frenchman, he sought fame in England, and after a brilliant career as a society painter, he turned late in life to religion. He set his glittering and minutely detailed scenes in elegant London ballrooms and conservatoires and peopled them with chic young women in ravishing costumes, while at the same time investing in them a note of brooding melancholy. This became overwhelming in his many portraits of his mistress Kathleen Newton, an intensely ...
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Tissot occupies a unique and ambivalent place in 19th-century painting: a Frenchman, he sought fame in England, and after a brilliant career as a society painter, he turned late in life to religion. He set his glittering and minutely detailed scenes in elegant London ballrooms and conservatoires and peopled them with chic young women in ravishing costumes, while at the same time investing in them a note of brooding melancholy. This became overwhelming in his many portraits of his mistress Kathleen Newton, an intensely romantic figure whom Tissot loved and painted obsessively until her tragically early death. Then, after returning to France, he experienced a dramatic religious conversion and devoted the rest of his life to spiritualism and to illustrating the Bible, which brought him even greater fame.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 11x10x0; Publisher's hardback in very good condition: firm, square and tight with no snags or splits, just a trifle rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket: in decent shape, just slightly rubbed and moderately edge-worn. Contents sound and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. 1986 1st edition with numerous colour and B&W illustrations; tightly bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket price-clipped with short tear to bottom back edge; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.
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