Shocking Paris : Soutine, Chagall and the outsiders of Montparnasse

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Label

Shocking Paris : Soutine, Chagall and the outsiders of Montparnasse

Title remainder

Soutine, Chagall and the outsiders of Montparnasse

Statement of responsibility

Stanley Meisler

Creator

• Meisler, Stanley

Author

• Meisler, Stanley

Subject

• Painters -- France -- Biography
• Painting, French -- France | Paris -- 20th century
• Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985
• École de Paris
• Soutine, Chaim, 1893-1943
• Montparnasse (Paris, France) -- Intellectual life

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors-- including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin-- dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them apart from the French-born (and less talented) young artists of the period. Modigliani and Chagall eventually attained enormous worldwide popularity, but in those earlier days, most School of Paris painters looked on Soutine as their most talented contemporary

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 759.4
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

ND553.S7

LC item number

M45 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography