The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 9, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Drawings

Brettell, Richard, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Duncan Robinson, and Janis Tomlinson (2002)

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Robert Lehman was a member of the first generation of American collectors to embrace what we call modern art. This volume catalogues 207 nineteenth- and twentieth-century European drawings that are now part of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. More than three-quarters of these drawings are French, but there are also sheets from Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. Most are from the nineteenth century, but Robert Lehman also acquired, in some cases from the artists themselves, a number of drawings made during his own lifetime.

The catalogue begins with drawings by David and Goya, the two most important artists in Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century, and it concludes with a group of watercolors made in the 1940s by the painter Marcel Vertès. Among the French drawings are outstanding sheets by Delacroix, Ingres, Chassériau, Corot, Daumier, Matisse, Vlaminck, and Villon. Drawings by Renoir, Morisot, Sisley, Pissarro, and Degas represent the Impressionists, and Robert Lehman also assembled one of the finest private collections of Neo-Impressionist drawings, including canonical works by Seurat, Signac, Cross, and Pissarro. More than 200 comparative illustrations supplement the catalogue entries, and the volume includes a bibliography and indexes.

Table of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann

Introduction
Richard R. Brettell

Note to the Reader

Catalogue

Concordance

Bibliography

Index of Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection

Index

About the authors

Richard R. Brettell is Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Françoise Forster-Hahn is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Riverside.

Duncan Robinson is Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Janis A. Tomlinson is Director of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Press reviews

Art & Antiques Magazine

"Richard R. Brettell's introduction to the catalog [is] a remarkably candid and finely written account of Lehman's career as a collector ... Both in this introductory essay and in his commentaries on individual drawings, Brettell's contributions to this catalog are indeed exemplary."

Choice Reviews Online

"There are many nuggets of interesting information contained in the entries ... Each drawing has been carefully researched and analyzed."

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Authors: Duncan Robinson | Françoise Forster-Hahn | Janis A. Tomlinson | Richard R. Brettell

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