Modern masters of etching: J. L. Forain: Number 4 book by J. L. Forain, Malcolm C. Salaman

J. L. Forain, Malcolm C. Salaman

Published by The Studio, 1925

About this Item

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Plates are bright and good. Year 1925. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Find little masterpieces of draughtsmanship as complete in pictorial suggestion and acute characterisation as a drawing by Charles Keene. "Decidedly the most interesting newspaper illustrator of his whole generation, the one whose ephemeral art most closely approaches grand painting"; so that excellent critic M. Camille Mauclair wrote of Forain some twenty-five years ago, classing him with the Impressionists and tracing the influence of Degas. The astonishing power, the nervous character, the science of Forain's drawing, every stroke a revelation, the satirical import of his illustrations and cartoons, the significance and interest of his paintings, of all these M. Mauclair spoke, but he made no men-tion of Forain ever having been an etcher, doubt-less regarding those early plates as artistically negligible. In only one of these, La Traite des blanches, do I find the linear treatment and com-passionate significance suggesting any affinity with the later etching.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern masters of etching: J. L. Forain: Number 4 book by J. L. Forain, Malcolm C. Salaman
• Publisher: The Studio
• Publication Date: 1925
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
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