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Geburtstag: 1923-05-21
Todestag: 2013-02-08
Geschlecht: female
Nationalität: France
Geburtsort: Le Pradet, France
Sterbeort: Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, France
Wohnorte: Paris, France
Ausbildung: University of Montpellier
Berufe: curator
art historian
Organisationen: Musee du Louvre
Kurzbiographie: Roseline Bacou was born in Le Pradet in southeastern France, a daughter of Simone and Paul Bacou, and granddaughter of painter Gustave Fayet. She earned a degree in art history at the University of Montpellier. In 1949, she joined the Cabinet des dessins (Department of Drawings) at the Musée de Louvre, where she spent her entire career. In 1984, she became head of the Département des Arts Graphiques (Department of Graphic Arts), which she managed until her retirement in 1988. Roseline Bacou was a specialist on the works of Odilon Redon, the 19th-century French Symbolist artist, who was the subject of her dissertation. She published extensively on the artist and in 1956 organized the first retrospective on him. She was also the curator and co-curator of a considerable number of exhibitions, highlighting both French art and Italian drawings.
In her final years, she devoted her energy to restoring the Abbaye Saint-André in Villeneuve-les-Avignon and its gardens.

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Great Drawings of the Louvre Museum (The German,… von Roseline Bacou

One of the great museums of the world and a selection of the greatest Italian drawings from the collections. Initially, I admit, I had missed the words "The Italian Drawings" because it's in small print but it does explain why a lot of the other well known masters of drawing such as Rembrandt are not included. There are many artists represented that I was unfamiliar with ...but that's really my ignorance rather than an issue with the selection. The book is now rather dated (1968 ...so some 52 years old) but still great reproductions and a really interesting range and selection. Of course it includes; Michelangelo, Caravaggio,Tintoretto, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci...but it also includes Bronzino, Sacchi, Domenichino and many others whose work I really liked but was unfamiliar with.
Interesting to me also was the fact that none of these drawings seemed to be in graphite. They were all either done in chalk: red, black, white, etc., on coloured paper. Or they were done in pen and brown ink. Very few other options. In actuality, the collection (just a part of the 90,000 in the Louvre collection at the time of publication) deals with the period from around 1350 to 1750 AD. So really rather a limited age range.
Each print is accompanied by some detailed description about the technique, the provenance, the artist and the drawing itself. All of which seems to be both scholarly and interesting.
That said, it is really just a collection of drawings with annotations. Plus a brief overview at the beginning ...which mainly deals with the way the collection was built up from Royal collections. Happy to give it 4 stars.… (mehr)

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booktsunami | Mar 10, 2020 |

Odilon Redon: Pastels von Roseline Bacou

This is THE book of Redon reproductions you want.

My sister-in-law has a degree in art and when she heard my wife and were going to be backpacking around europe for a year (1987) she mentioned that should we find ourselves in Paris to go to the Musee D'Orsay and check out this unknown (to most americans at the time) artist by the name of Odilon Redon. Well, we did. His pastels were in this darkened room and they were all under glass with the faintest of light - this was in order to preserve these delicate works. Hunching over them we were delighted, astonished, entranced, and transported. Redon is one of THE great artists of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Fast forward to a more mundane and settled life and years spent looking for a book that reproduced as closely as possible the ethereal colors of Redon's work and FINALLy finding it. Having seen many of the originals, and having perused all books Redon for years, I can say that this is the one that comes closest to reproducing his works. Nothing is as good as the originals, but the quality of reproduction here is without peer.… (mehr)