Joachim Gasquet's Cezanne: A Memoir with Conversations
by Gasquet, Joachim; Pemberton, Christopher (Translated by), and Rewald, John (Preface by), and Shiff, Richard Introduction by)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0500092125
- ISBN 13
- 9780500092125
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About This Item
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. With 61 illustrations. "Joachim Gasquet's personal and largely first-hand study of the greatest and most profound modern painter has been known to Cezanne experts and art historians for some time. But it has hitherto been available only in the French edition that was published originally in 1921. Now the English-reading audience is introduced for the first time to an invaluable and often-cited source of information on Cezanne's aspirations and ideas. Gasquet's father Henri was a schoolboy friend of Cezanne's in Aix, and in his later years Cezanne painted impressive portraits of both father and son. Joachim himself, a young man with a consuming interest in literature and Provencal culture, first came to know Cezanne in 1896. On numerous occasions prior to Cezanne's death in 1906, he saw and talked with the artist he so much admired. The first half of the book offers an account of Cezanne's life and career, based on Cezanne's own hints and testimony as well as details Gasquet obtained from others who had known the artist at various stages of his life in Paris and Aix. The second half is couched in the form of conversations between Gasquet and Cezanne, in the course of which Cezanne struggles to formulate his basic artistic philosophy. What emerges is a poignant and unforgettable portrait of a tortured, obsessed genius who seemed doomed never to satisfy his own ideals. Joachim Gasquet was a poet of some talent and wrote a few novels; his style is flowery, overblown, and occasionally obscure. Christopher Pemberton, former teacher at the Camberwell School of Art, London, and himself a distinguished artist, here provides a highly sensitive and illuminating translation of a work which deserves to be called a classic." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Preface, by John Rewald; Introduction, by Richard Shiff; Translator's introduction; Part One: What I know or have seen of his life; Youth; Paris; Provence; Old age; Part Two: What he told me; The motif; The Louvre; The studio; Appendix: Chronology of Joachim Gasquet's life; Appendix II: Chronology of Paul Cézanne's life.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124524
- Title
- Joachim Gasquet's Cezanne: A Memoir with Conversations
- Author
- Gasquet, Joachim; Pemberton, Christopher (Translated by), and Rewald, John (Preface by), and Shiff, Richard Introduction by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0500092125
- ISBN 13
- 9780500092125
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / 7. Late 19th Century; European / French; Movements / Post-Impressionism;
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