Pierre Courthion papers 1901-1987

Dufy, Raoul, 1877-1953

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The painter and engraver Raoul Dufy began designing fabrics in 1912 at the encouragement of his friend, the couturier Paul Poiret. Dufy designed fabrics for Bianchini-Férier until 1927-28. From the description of Dufy letters and sketch, 1926. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81840340 ...

Soutine, Chaïm, 1893-1943

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Lithuanian-born French painter. From the description of Letter : Caques, to Fernand Zamaron, 1918 June 1. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81380202 ...

Chéreau, Jean-Baptiste, 1907-1988

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Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891

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French artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [dated in another hand Paris], to [Félix] Fénéon, 1890 June 20]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872235 ...

Seligmann, Kurt, 1900-1962

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Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883

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French artist. From the description of Lithograph of Edgar Allan Poe [manuscript], ca. 1888? (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806728 French painter. From the description of Letters sent by Edouard Manet, 1860-1882. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79889178 From the description of Autograph letters signed (30) : Paris, to his wife Suzanne, his mother and his sister-in-law, Mme Mathe Vibert, 1870 Sept.-1871 Jan. 19. (Unknown)...

Liotard, Jean-Etienne, 1702-1789

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Severini, Gino, 1883-1966

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Italian painter. From the description of Letter from Gino Severini, Meudon, ca. 1949. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77935809 ...

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954

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Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...

Camargo, Iberê, 1914-1994

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Schiavi, Elena

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Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877

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Nineteenth-century painter. From the description of Gustave Courbet papers, 1837-1877. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 17692634 French painter. From the description of Letters, 1865, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82594698 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to his father, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270525390 Jean-Desiré Courbet was born in Ornans, Franche Comté, France,...

Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867

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French artist. From the description of Ingres correspondence and manuscripts, 1814-1869. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77946494 French painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Monsieur Mervaux, 1850 Feb. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269533886 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rome, to his fiancée, Julie Forestier, 1806 Oct. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269534218 From the ...

Rousseau, Henri, 1844-1910

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Courthion, Pierre

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French art critic and historian. Student at the Universite de Geneve; Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; and Ecole du Louvre. From 1933 to 1939 he was Director of the Cite Universitaire de Paris. From the description of Correspondence, ca. 1950-1980. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84279552 Pierre Courthion (1902-1988) was a prominent Swiss-born art critic and historian. Courthion's major projects focused on the history of American, French and European art includin...

Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863

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French artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : n.p. [Paris], to an unidentified friend, "Mercredi", n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270525499 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified correspondent, [no year] ce Samedi 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270525506 Delacroix, leader of the French Romantic movement in painting, spent several months in North Africa in 1832. He continued to use the images he found ...

Rouault, Georges, 1871-1958

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French artist. From the description of Calling card of Georges Rouault signed by Isabelle Rouault : [postmark: Cannes], to John Rewald, [1955 Jan. 24]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873019 Georges Rouault was a French painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was also a book illustrator, made sets and costumes for Diaghilev's ballet The prodigal son, designed cartoons for stained glass and tapestries, and published texts and poems in various reviews. From the d...