Fernand Khnopff: Portrait of Jeanne Kefer
by Draguet, Michel
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- Very Good
- Paperback
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- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 089236730X
- ISBN 13
- 9780892367306
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Los Angeles, CA: Getty Museum, 2004. 108 pages, illustrations (some color); 24 cm. Getty Museum Studies on Art Ser. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant-garde symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of silence, isolation, and reverie. As in the provocative, yet hauntingly beautiful, Portrait of Jeanne Kefer that is the focus of this book, he frequently posed his models leaning against a closed door, flattening the space and resulting in a meditative, hermetically sealed image. Jeanne Kefer was the daughter of a composer-friend of the artist, and Khnopff captures the child's vulnerability to the outside world in a small gesture of her tiny thumb catching the edge of her bow. The book places this painting in the historical context of Khnopff's times and social milieu and traces the advent of Symbolism as a literary and artistic movement. An analysis of the portrait itself is supported by an array of related paintings, details, and technical photographs. Finally, the author uses Khnopff's portraits as a taking-off point for a broader discussion of Symbolist art. / Michel Draguet is professor of modern and contemporary art and director of the center for research on Rene Magritte at the Free University of Brussels. He is a widely published author, most recently of the important monograph James Ensor and Treasures of Art Nouveau: Through the Collections of Anne-Marie Gilbert." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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- Title
- Fernand Khnopff: Portrait of Jeanne Kefer
- Author
- Draguet, Michel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 089236730X
- ISBN 13
- 9780892367306
- Publisher
- Getty Museum
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles, CA
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / Dutch & Flemish; Genre & Subject / Children; Movements / Symbolism;
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