Propos de peintre

 

Description

Foreword by Marcel Proust

Here is a compilation of the best portraits of painters and other great intellectual figures at the beginning of the twentieth century, written by Jacques-Emile Blanche exactly as they were published between 1919 and 1928. Frédéric Mitterrand selected the texts. In 2012 an exhibition at the Pierre Bergé Foundation showed how Jacques-Emile Blanche could not be ignored as one of the essential artists of his time.
According to Philippe Dagenham in Le Monde: «Blanche, the writer, understood his time with an enviable soundness. He even sometimes reaches the heights of Valéry.»

THE AUTHOR
Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942) was a French painter. He was an eclectic socialite and an eminent portraitist (Henri Bergson, Antoine Bourdelle, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau, André Gide...).As a writer and art critic, he published numerous articles, books about painting, novels and short stories.


HIGHLIGHTS
• A complete book that recalls all of the painters in Jacques-Emile Blanche's lifetime
• Foreword by Marcel Proust, written with a surprising freedom of tone
• Blanche as a writer could be compared to Paul Valéry, according to Le Monde


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