Paperback, 143 pages, Scriptum Art 1999, excellent condition.
Summary:
New, limited edition
Sunny beach scenes, portraits of famous actresses and writers, fairground and circus scenes with wrestlers and acrobats, cityscapes of Amsterdam and Parisian street life, fashionable ladies in the latest fashions, and café interiors with dancing couples or a solitary woman drinking typify the extensive oeuvre of Isaac Israels.
As the son of the famous painter Jozef Israels, Isaac grew up in the artistic milieu of the previous fin du siècle. He was a draftsman through and through; he considered painting "drawing in oils." Throughout his life, he traveled extensively, including to England, France, Italy, North Africa, and the Dutch East Indies.
In this publication, Isaac Israels emerges as a painter who, during the Belle Époque, brought Impressionism to our country with light, color, and movement. The book contains five essays by: Jeroen Kapelle (biographical notes), Saskia de Bodt (Isaac and his father Jozef Israels), John Sillevis (Israel and the modern art of his time), Judith Wesselingh (Isaac Israels and Paris), and Job Ubbens (Isaac Israels and the Orient).
"Isaac Israels, Dutch Impressionist" was previously published as a catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Kunsthal Rotterdam (1999). It is currently the only available book that offers such a broad and varied overview of his life and work.
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