1982 French Exhibition Poster - "Impressionnistes Américains Au Petit Palais" (Mary Cassatt)

Description

Date: 1982
Size: 16 x 23 inches
Artist: Mary Cassatt

About the Exhibition: American Impressionism was a style of painting … more Date: 1982
Size: 16 x 23 inches
Artist: Mary Cassatt

About the Exhibition: American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors with a wide array of subject matters but focusing on landscapes and upper-class domestic life. (Wikipedia)

About the Artist: Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), and lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.

She was described by Gustave Geffroy as one of "les trois grandes dames" (the three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot. In 1879, Diego Martelli compared her to Degas, as they both sought to depict movement, light, and design in the most modern sense. (Wikipedia)

Pictured on the poster is her painting Sara et Son Chien (around 1901).

The poster is rare, in overall good condition with minor ruffles and ready to frame. less