Georges de la Tour

by Philip Conisbee

Georges de La Tour, now considered one of the greatest painters of 17th-century France, was virtually forgotten until the early 20th century. Since the major retrospective in Paris in 1972, new paintings have continued to emerge. This beautiful book is a complete overview of La Tour's work and will serve as the catalogue for a major exhibition opening at the National Gallery in October 1996. 40 b&w illustrations. 150 color plates.

Genres: Art

Unknown Binding

First published June 1, 1996

Reviews

[Horus · Rating 4 out of 5]

For those interested in art history or Georges de la Tour specifically, this book is for you. Produced in conjunction with a North American exhibit, it has many exceptionally good photos with detailed magnification. Many of the articles are quite interesting and cover everything from what we know of de la Tour’s life, to the technical details of how experts feel he painted. The details are slim however, as he is one of the most recent masters to be discovered, and very little of his life and methodology are actually known. A caution: my copy of this edition suffered a printing error which duplicated almost 100 pages, instead of the sequential pages that should have been in their stead. This is an unfortunate error for a catalogue which could not have been cheap to print or to purchase new. Buyer beware.