Volume 46, Number 1 · January 14, 1999
Passion Painter
By Henri Zerner
Delacroix
by Barthélémy Jobert
Princeton University Press, 336 pp.
Delacroix: The Late Work Museum of Art, September 15, 1998-January 3, 1999.
an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, and the Philadelphia, Catalog of the exhibition by Arlette Sérullaz, by Vincent Pomarède, by Joseph J. Rishel, by Lee Johnson, by Louis-Antoine Prat, by David Liot
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 407 pp., $29.95 (paper)
The life of Eugène Delacroix, a life devoted to hard work and serious thought, has never tempted a film-maker. A painter of the passions, Delacroix was a reserved man and somewhat cold in manner. The modern public is as curious about the artist's person as about his or her oeuvre. Van Gogh, with his generous spirit and troubled life, is the type of artist who has broad appeal, and he has been the subject of several films. Delacroix, whose bicentenary is celebrated this year, is an extremely famous painter, but hardly a popular one.
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