FELIX ZIEM, 1821-1911 : SAISIR LA LUMIÈRE.

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• AuthorWilliam Saadé, Charles Villeneuve de Janti (dir.)
• PublisherSilvana
• Date of publicationFévrier 2024
• Language(s)French
• IllustrationsColour ill.
• Pages208
• DescriptionHardback
• Price (VAT incl.)34.00 €
• AvailabilityOn order

Exhibition at the Palais Lumière, Évian-les-Bains, 16 December 2023 - 21 April 2024

A painter of Mediterranean skies and an Orient more dreamt than real, Félix Ziem (1821-1911) was a nomadic, unclassifiable and eccentric artist. A great traveller, he travelled through Russia, Constantinople, Venice and Africa. A friend of the Barbizon painters, he admired Lorrain and Turner, but also the Dutch masters and the great Italian painters of the Renaissance. Fortunate and famous in his day, Ziem attracted a broad clientele before gradually being forgotten by institutions, only to be rediscovered in recent years.

This exhibition catalogue presents around a hundred works - 56 paintings and a selection of watercolours, drawings and travel diaries - largely taken from the donation Ziem made to the Petit Palais in 1905. The painter is evoked here from the places that inspired his quest for an ideal nature, indifferent to the great realist wave that overturned landscape art in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Price (VAT incl.) : 34.00 €