BONJOUR, MONSIEUR COURBET
Catalogue edited by Sarah Lees
Exhibition curated under the direction of Michel Hilaire and Sylvain Amic
$60.00 Hardcover
$35.00 Softcover
Some of the most iconic and influential images of nineteenth-century French painting, including Gustave Courbet’s famous
The Meeting ("Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!"),highlight the celebrated Bruyas collection from the Musée Fabre in Montpellier. With tastes ranging from romanticism to realism, Alfred Bruyas (1821–1877) collected both traditional and what was then avant-garde art. Featuring nine masterpieces by Courbet, as well as important paintings, drawings, and sculptures by such leading artists of the period as Delacroix, Ingres, Géricault, Millet, Corot, Rousseau, and Barye, this book examines Bruyas’s role as one of the foremost collectors of contemporary art in France, and the significance of his patronage of living artists.
256 pages, 11 x 8 11/16 inches
105 color and 20 black-and-white illustrations
2004
Published by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in association with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux
ISBN 0-300-10523-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 0-931102-58-8 (softcover)
