Fernand Khnopff: Portrait of Jeanne Kefer (Getty Museum Studies on Art)

Michel Draguet

ISBN 10: 089236730X / ISBN 13: 9780892367306

Verlag: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004

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The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant-garde Symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of silence, isolation, and reverie. As in the provocative yet hauntingly beautiful *Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer* that is the focus of this book, he frequently posed his models leaning against a closed door, flattening the space and resulting in a meditative, hermetically sealed image. Jeanne Kéfer was the daughter of a composer-friend of the artist, and Khnopff deftly captures the child’s vulnerability to the outside world in the small gesture of her tiny thumb catching the edge of her bow.

The book places this painting in the historical context of Khnopff’s times and social milieu and traces the advent of Symbolism as a literary and artistic movement. An analysis of the portrait itself is supported by a stunning array of related paintings, details, and technical photographs. Finally, the author uses Khnopff’s portraits as a taking-off point for a broader discussion of Symbolist art. 

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Michel Draguet is professor of modern and contemporary art and director of the center for research on René Magritte at the Free University of Brussels. He is a widely published author, most recently of the important monograph James Ensor and Treasures of Art Nouveau: Through the Collections of Anne-Marie Gilbert.

Michel Draguet is a professor of modern and contemporary art and director of the center for research on Rene Magritte at the Free University of Brussels.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Fernand Khnopff: Portrait of Jeanne Kefer (...
Verlag: J. Paul Getty Museum
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
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