Volume 39, Number 5 · March 5, 1992
Mysteries of a Modern Painter
By Henri Zerner
Géricault January 6, 1992
An exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, October 10, 1991 to
Géricault
catalog of the exhibition by Régis Michel, by Sylvain Laveissière, by Bruno Chenique
Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 409 pp., 170 fr
Géricault
by German Bazin
La Bibliotèque des Arts, Volume IV, 241 pp., 200 fr per volume
'No nineteenth-century artist of Gericault's stature remains as enigmatic; no oeuvre, despite its small size, so rife with problems of attribution; no chronology, despite its too-brief span, so inadequately documented.'[1] The splendid exhibition organized this autumn at the Grand Palais in Paris for the bicentennial of Géricault's birth challenged so many old assumptions that it raised more questions than it answered, but it made clearer than ever before that Géricault is a great artist, a true harbinger of the modern spirit.
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