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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some slight tanning to page edges due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The only son of a humble railway clerk he was naturally remote from the professional miles and still more from a knowledge of the latest artistic treni The 1890s was the time when the closing century met with the one about to begin. The furore of the last Impressionist exhibitions had died away but Monet Renoir and Pissarro were at the height of their powers. C?zanne still not fully recognized and known only to a very limited circle was paint- ing his finest canvases. At exhibitions works by Bonnard Signac Henri Rousseau Matisse and Gauguin hung side by side. Public taste was habitually outraged and retained its devotion to traditional visual verisimilitude. Many of the devices introduced by the Impressionists were already being used by the artists of the Salon while in the schools of art the greatest respect was reserved for academic principles which dated back almost to the time of Louis David. Marquet was lucky: soon after his arrival he became acquaint- ed with men who were destined to create the new art. His professional preferences formed quickly and unerringly he joined the circle of most talented and independent painters. From his youth he displayed an inherent accuracy in the choices that he made and an ability both to learn from others without losing his self-reliance and to assimilate the most daring innovations while maintaining his fidelity to tra dition. There is no doubt that of all the future Fauves Marquet was the most classical. (MP)