Museum Note Cards, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh. Cassatt, Picasso, Morandi and Redon
Impressionist Style Note Cards.
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Edgar Degas. (1834 - 1917)
Fin d' arabesque and Le Classe de danse are the front and back images of the charming set of Note Cards.
After only a year of training at the Ecole des Beau-Arts, Degas spent 3 years travelling in Italy which perhaps formed his artistic taste. On his return to Paris he met the artist Manet after which he started portraying Parisian subjects. More than his Impressionist friends he concentrated on the human figure such as the dancers in these works. Only seldom did he paint landscapes.
These paintings are in Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France.
$9.95 per set
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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Joseph-Etienne Roulin, commonly call The Postman. In 1889 van Gogh lived in a room above the Arles train station cafe in the South of France. He met Roulin and they became friends, with the artist painting several portraits of him and his family.
The second image in this set is of Houses in Auvers which was done very shortly before his death.
The wallet style package contains 5 cards of each painting together with 10 envelopes. $9.95 per set
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
The Water Lilies painted in1907 shown here is in fact one of many Monet painted of the lilies in his pond. As well as a painter his attention to color and detail was a driving force in the design and layout of his garden in Giverny.
The set of cards is of the same painting with the larger image being a detail of the whole, which appears as the second image. In total 10 cards and envelopes make this a lovely set. $9.95 per set
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Woman with a Parasol is a painting of Monet's first wife, Camille and their son Jean. The painting was done in 1875 at their home in Argenteuil .
The second painting in this set is Woman Seated under the Willows. The woman is thought to be Monet's second wife Alice. The setting was on the banks of the Seine close to where he live in Verheuil.
Limited quantity. $9.95 per set
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
On the left is; Susan Comforting the Baby and Children in the Garden. On the right are; Children Playing on a Beach and Child in a Straw Hat.
Mary Cassatt was born in Pennsylvania and at 16 her artistic talents were evident when she was accepted for two years of study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At the age of 25 she moved to Paris, France, where she joined a group of young painters who were known as French Impressionists. In 1877, Edgar Degas invited her to show with the group, which she did 2 years later. Some 75% of her work depicts children without coy sentimentality.
Pablo Picasso (1881- 1976)
Picasso, is known to most people as a major artist for much of the Twentieth century, This is not surprising as his work output is said to be in excess of 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets and costumes. Born in 1881 in Málaga, Spain, Picasso studied art briefly in Madrid in 1897, then in Barcelona in 1899, He was iving in Paris and Spain until 1904 when he decided to make Paris his home. His style of painting changed many times over his lifetime. but he was the master of them all.
Acrobat and Young Harlequin, together with Composition: The Peasantsm make these an interesting set of note cards, $9.95 per set
Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
While being influenced by the masters of the Impressionism period, his early works were in charcoal and lithographic printing.
At the turn of the century he began to study Hinduism and Buddism and his work evolved with Influences of Japonism. Some works do not show a specific place or space only details of trees, twigs with leaves. The colors used are mostly yellow, grey, brown and light blue. With the likes of Paul Gauguin he advanced the style of painting towards Neo-Impressionism.
The Redon painting shown as the front cover of the Note Card packet is Pandora, on the back are Two Young Girls Among Flowers and Vase of Flowers. The packet contains 4 cards of Pandora and 3 each of the other two, together wiith 10 envelopes. $9.95 per set
Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964)
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Even though he lived his whole life in Bologna, Morandi was influenced by the works of Cézanne, Derain, and Picasso. In later life he focused increasingly on subtle gradations of hue, tone, and objects arranged in a unifying atmospheric haze, establishing the direction his art was to take for the rest of his life. The two examples used to form this set of note cards are both Still Lifes. The one on the left painted in 1950 and the other in 1953. $9.95 per set