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Mythological Subject (Sujet Mytholigique)

Mythological Subject (Sujet Mytholigique)

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Ker Xavier Roussel

"Roussel, born at Lorry-les-Mets, received his early training in the fashionable studios of D. N. Maillart, Bougereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. Though his taste led him to study the works of Cezanne, Degas, Renoir and Monet (whom he knew) his personal idiom was rather less that of impressionism than a fin-de-siècle romanticism. His pictures, usually allegorical or mythological subjects, represent a flight from reality, and in their painterly handling of the form recall Delacroix, or even Prud'hon, more than they do his Nabis friends, Vuillard and Bonnard." The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Collection of Prints and Drawings
Artist
Ker Xavier Roussel
(French, 1867 - 1944)
Title
Mythological Subject (Sujet Mytholigique)
Date
1941
Medium
Pastel
Dimensions
5 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. Overall
Credit
Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Fund purchase
Accession No.
65.1.4
Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
Geography
France

Related

  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Inaugural Exhibition: 19th & 20th Century Art from Collections of Alumni & Friends." Madison, WI: Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1970. p. 41, no. 31
  • Madison Art Center. "Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings From The University of Wisconsin Collections." Madison, WI: The Madison Art Association, 1965.
  • Elvehjem Art Center. "The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Collection of Prints and Drawings." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Art Center, 1967.

  • Master Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection: Elvehjem Art Center, 11/6/1970–1/31/1971
  • Inaugural Exhibition: 19th & 20th Cen. Art from Collection of Alumni & Friends: Elvehjem Art Center, 9/11/1970–11/8/1970
  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings from the University of Wisconsin Collections: Madison Art Center, 11/21/1965–12/11/1965
  • Modern French Paintings and Drawing, 1965: Baltimore Museum of Art

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