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The most comprehensive and best-illustrated history of watercolour painting ever published. The term watercolour calls to mind atmosphere, luminosity, and immediacy - qualities that derive directly from the quick-drying, translucent nature of water-based pigments. In Watercolor: A History, Louvre curator Marie-Pierre Sale provides an authoritative and beautifully illustrated account of this versatile and widely beloved artistic medium. Sale's incisive text traces the development of watercolour from the thirteenth to the twentieth century in Europe and the United States, encompassing every type of work - from plein-air sketches to finished studio pieces - and a wide variety of artists. Here are Durer's detailed animal studies, Turner's landscapes, Cezanne's tireless explorations, Sargent's light-dappled sketches, O'Keeffe's pioneering abstractions. This handsome volume features more than three hundred full-colour illustrations, specially printed on Munken paper to capture the vibrancy and texture of the original works. It is sure to be welcomed by art historians and art lovers alike. AUTHOR: Marie-Pierre Sale is curator at the Musee du Louvre. She was previously a curator at the Musee D'Orsay, and is the author of several books, including Drawing Outdoors: Variations of the Drawing on Nature in the First Half of the 19th Century, Eugene Delacroix: Pyrenees Notebook, and Watercolor: Workshop and Outdoors. 300 colour illustrations

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The history of watercolor in the West as both an artistic medium and a genre has never before been explored with such depth and vibrancy. . . She brings expertise and zest to her explication of both the technical and aesthetic aspects of watercolor as its use evolved from medieval illustrations to nature studies, miniatures, landscapes, and abstract works. The more than 300 examples are gorgeously displayed in this large-scale volume in magnificent reproductions offering spectacular detail and enabling full appreciation of watercolor's most remarkable quality, its translucency.-- (10/15/2020) The history of watercolor in the West as both an artistic medium and a genre has never before been explored with such depth and vibrancy. . . She brings expertise and zest to her explication of both the technical and aesthetic aspects of watercolor as its use evolved from medieval illustrations to nature studies, miniatures, landscapes, and abstract works. The more than 300 examples are gorgeously displayed in this large-scale volume in magnificent reproductions offering spectacular detail and enabling full appreciation of watercolor's most remarkable quality, its translucency.-- (10/15/2020)

The history of watercolor in the West as both an artistic medium and a genre has never before been explored with such depth and vibrancy. . . She brings expertise and zest to her explication of both the technical and aesthetic aspects of watercolor as its use evolved from medieval illustrations to nature studies, miniatures, landscapes, and abstract works. The more than 300 examples are gorgeously displayed in this large-scale volume in magnificent reproductions offering spectacular detail and enabling full appreciation of watercolor's most remarkable quality, its translucency. Watercolor: A History exquisitely captures the vibrancy of this astonishing, essential medium and the artists who've made it come alive.

More than 300 examples are gorgeously displayed in this large-scale volume in magnificent reproductions offering spectacular detail and enabling full appreciation of watercolor's most remarkable quality, its translucency. -- Booklist;

"""More than 300 examples are gorgeously displayed in this large-scale volume in magnificent reproductions offering spectacular detail and enabling full appreciation of watercolor’s most remarkable quality, its translucency.” -- Booklist;"

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Marie-Pierre Salé is curator at the Musée du Louvre. She was previously a curator at the Musée D'Orsay, and is the author of several books, including Drawing Outdoors: Variations of the Drawing on Nature in the First Half of the 19th Century, Eugene Delacroix: Pyrenees Notebook, and Watercolor: Workshop and Outdoors.

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