The Life and Works of Jean-Leon Gerome with a Catalogue Raisonne
New York: Sotheby's Publications, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 x 10"). 352 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with white lettering on front cover and spine. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Blue ribbon marker. Dust jacket with light rubbing to extremities and a few small closed tears. Head and tail of jacket with lightly rubbed and chipped. Binding and book block water stained and lightly soiled at bottom left corner, resulting in pages being lightly tained and rippled along bottom portion of gutter. Interior text and images throughout otherwise still quite clean and vibrant. Dust jacket in very good- condition. Binding and interior in good condition overall.
This monograph comprises an artistic biography and complete catalogue raisonne of French artist Jean-Leon Gerome by American art historian Gerald M. Ackerman. Includes 180 color and 520 b/w reproductions throughout, after original artwork by the artist.
"Jean-Leon Gerome was the greatest of the French school of 19th century academic Realists, yet his long career defies encapsulation by its very breadth. A contemporary of Courbet, he began as a successful master of the ironic classicism of the neo-grec school; he then became an academic history painter of oriental genre and finally, at the age of 54, a sculptor... Gerald Ackerman's book, consisting of a thorough biography and catalogue raisonne, provides the first modern study of the painter and his work. Beginning with Gerome's childhood and his first studies in the ateliers of Gleyre and Delaroche, the author describes and evaluates his career as a successful painter in the second empire: the State commissions, the Salon exhibits; the safari; his teaching at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris; his theory and practice of art" - dust jacket. g to vg-. Item #56216
ISBN: 0856673110
Price: $250.00