The Unknown Monet

Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet, there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly significant role as a draftsman. This book is the first to focus on Monet's pastels, drawings, and sketchbooks, offering a revolutionary new interpretation of the artist's life and work. Monet has long been seen as an anti-draftsman, an artist who painted his subjects directly and whose rarely seen graphic works were marginal to his artistic process. In an effort to develop his public image, Monet denied the role of drawing in his working method. In actuality, Monet began his career as a caricaturist and as a teenager developed a passion for drawing that was never extinguished. He went on to master the medium of pastel and included seven in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. Citing recently discovered, unpublished documents that overturn the accepted image of the artist, "The Unknown Monet" reveals an extensive group of graphic works created over the course of the artist's career, many of which are unknown to the general public and to scholars: beautiful pastels, stunning black chalk drawings, and fascinating sketchbooks, which include pencil studies that relate to many of his paintings. The book also shows how Monet exploited the print media to promote his art. The most important publication on Monet to appear in a generation, this illuminating volume is essential to anyone interested in his work, Impressionism, and nineteenth-century French culture.

ISBN 0300118627   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780300118629 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Yale University Press   Weight (grammes) 2145 Imprint Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Format Hardback   Series title Clark Art Institute S. Publication date 13 Mar 2007   Height (mm) 305 Library of Congress NC248   Width (mm) 230 DEWEY 759.4   Spine width (mm) 42 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

1		Portrait of the artist as a young draftsman		9
2		Oscar Monet, caricaturist		33
3		Encounters with draftsmen, 1859-63		55
4		Drawing and painting, 1863-66		73
5		Monet's pastels in public		103
6		Monet's pastels in private		119
7		Rough drafts : the sketchbook drawings		161
8		Drawing for the mass media		183
9		Monet in print		215
10		Lines of color : drawing in the late years		241
App		The Thornley-Monet portfolio		273

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