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April 10, 2013 by Max Distro LLC

Félix Zeim at the Petit Palais, Paris

Venise, Place Saint-Marc 1863 by Félix Zeim Oil on Canvas. Petit Palais, Paris

Venise, Place Saint-Marc 1863 by Félix Zeim Oil on Canvas. Petit Palais, Paris

They were having an exhibition of Félix Zeim at the Petit Palace and we decided to go. Starting his career in the shadow of Delacroix and ending it in Picasso's, the importance of Félix Ziem (1821-1911) in 19th century French art has too often been overlooked. Félix Ziem is an artist of the pre-impressionist generation who has a unique style inspired by the chromatic variations between the sky and the sea. His paintings of Venice and Constantinople were very successful among the collectors of the time and remain sought after icons of 19th century travel painting today. His contemporaries; Théophile Gautier, Théodore Rousseau and Chopin all held him in great esteem. An extensive traveller, friend of the Barbizon school of artists, admirer of Claude Lorrain and JMW Turner, Ziem played a unique part in the 19th century art world. At the end of his life, concerned with his legacy, Ziem had put aside a significant body of work, 171 drawings, paintings and watercolours, to donate to the brand new City of Paris Beaux-Arts Museum. Two small notes, he did not date his works, thus no dates occur in my captions and unlike my previous posts I did not include the frames because the are for the most part simple wood.

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Filed Under: Museums, Painting, Paris Tagged With: Barbizon, Chiaroscuro, Constantinople, Félix Zeim, Fontainebleau, Impressionism, Lapis Lazuli, Marseilles, Martigues, Montmartre, Naturalism, Petit Palais, Romanticism, Travel, Van Gogh, Venice

July 3, 2012 by Max Distro LLC

Rodin Museum, Paris…The Paintings

Munch the thinker
Munch scream

I could not bear to include these paintings in with the sculptures on my post concerning the Rodin museum, so I thought I would include them in a separate post. The painting above is by Edvard Munch, the Norwegian painter made famous by “The Scream”, seen to the right.

There is no evidence of Rodin and Edvard Munch (1863-1944), the most important Norwegian artist and etcher of his generation, ever having met. Yet the sculptor’s work greatly influenced the painter’s production, and today the Musée Rodin is still the only French museum to own a canvas by Munch.

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Filed Under: Museums, Painting, Paris Tagged With: Munch, Painting, Paris, Rilke, Rodin, Van Gogh

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