Impressionists on paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec

Abstract

Best known for their superlative oils on canvas, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and numerous other Impressionists and Post-Impressionists also regularly used paper as a support for works in watercolour, gouache, pencil, tempera and that most elusive of media, pastel. Their practice transformed the status of these works from preparatory studies, to be left in the studio and not shown in public, to works of art in their own right.

Contents

Impressionists on paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec / Christopher Lloyd -- The rising status of drawing from the 1870s to the 1890s / Leïla Jarbouai -- Reciprocal invention: how material innovations catalysed the ascendance of drawing in nineteenth-century France / Harriet K. Stratis -- Catalogue plates / with section introduction by Ann Dumas