Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
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Join us for a special art-historical event bringing together two Edinburgh authors to present their new books on two renowned French artists who were both contemporaries and rivals.
Frances Fowle, Emeritus Professor of Nineteenth-Century Art at the University of Edinburgh, will introduce the life and work of Claude Monet through his letters. She is co-author of a new anthology in English of the artist’s correspondence, published by Thames & Hudson to mark the centenary of Monet’s death.
Belinda Thomson, President of the Society of Friends of the Institut français d’Écosse, will present her book Gauguin’s Ultimate Collector: Gustave Fayet and the Art Market, published by Bloomsbury to coincide with this autumn’s major exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, Gustave Fayet, Collector-Designer, Icons of Modern Art.
The event forms part of the celebrations marking the centenary of the death of Claude Monet (1840–1926) and of Gustave Fayet (1865-1925)
Supported by the Society of Friends of the Institut français d’Écosse
Language: In English
Price: Free admission for members | £7 non-members
Frances Fowle, Emeritus Professor of Nineteenth-Century Art at the University of Edinburgh, will introduce the life and work of Claude Monet through his letters. She is co-author of a new anthology in English of the artist’s correspondence, published by Thames & Hudson to mark the centenary of Monet’s death.
Belinda Thomson, President of the Society of Friends of the Institut français d’Écosse, will present her book Gauguin’s Ultimate Collector: Gustave Fayet and the Art Market, published by Bloomsbury to coincide with this autumn’s major exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, Gustave Fayet, Collector-Designer, Icons of Modern Art.
The event forms part of the celebrations marking the centenary of the death of Claude Monet (1840–1926) and of Gustave Fayet (1865-1925)
Supported by the Society of Friends of the Institut français d’Écosse
Language: In English
Price: Free admission for members | £7 non-members
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