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Delacroix and the rise of modern art

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Noon and Riopelle explore the artist's influence on modern art in the late-18th and early-20th centuries. An analysis and comparison with works by various artists whom he influenced include Edouard Manet, John Singer Sargent, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Eugène Fromentin, Théodore Chassériau, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Frédéric Bazille, Ary Scheffer, Gustave Moreau, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Vincent van Gogh, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Richard Parkes Bonington, Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Jean Metzinger, and Wassily Kandinsky.

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Prologue / Patrick Noon -- 'What is Delacroix?' / Patrick Noon -- Afterlife: Delacroix's posthumous fame / Christopher Riopelle -- Emulation -- Orientalism: imagined, experienced, re-imagined -- Narrative painting at a crossroads: 'Truth in Art' -- Delacroix's Legacy in Paint and Prose.

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    London: National Gallery Company in association with the Minneapolis Institute of Art, [2015]

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    • 9781857095753
    • 1857095758
    • 1857095766
    • 9781857095760

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    "This exhibition is co-organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and The National Gallery, London. [The exhibition will be held at] Minneapolis Institute of Art, 18 October 2015-10 January 2016, [entitled: 'Delacroix's Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from Cézanne to van Gogh'; and at] The National Gallery, London, 17 February-22 May 2016"--Title page verso.

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