GUSTAVE MOREAU - 1980 Monograph - NEW HB/DJ in Slipcase

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Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) Gustave Moreau 176 pages 23 color & 83 b/w illustrations book size 11¾" x 9" (29.8 x 22.8 cm.) editor Jean Paladilhe published 1980, Fernand Hazan, Paris hardbound with dustjacket in publisher's slipcase text in French ISBN: 139907881x Condition: as new in publisher's cardboard slipcase Gustave Moreau was a French Symbolist painter whose main focus was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement.Moreau was born in Paris. His father was an architect who recognized his talent. Moreau studied under Francois-Edouard Picot and became a friend of Theodore Chasseriau, whose work strongly influenced his own. Moreau carried on a deeply personal 25-year relationship, possibly romantic, with Adelaide-Alexandrine Dureux, a woman whom he drew several times. His first painting was a Pieta which is now located in the cathedral at Angouleme. He showed A Scene from the Song of Songs and The Death of Darius in the Salon of 1853. In 1853 he contributed Athenians with the Minotaur and Moses Putting Off his Sandals within Sight of the Promised Land to the Great Exhibition. Oedipus and the Sphinx , one of his first symbolist paintings, was read more

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