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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
At last,
This review is from: Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (Hardcover)
We've been waiting for Patrick Noon to get to this book for some time -- the heroic effort of the Constable to Delacroix exhibition was a few years ago -- and at last he's done it! Bonington is still under-regarded as a painter (watercolourists, you know; and also he died at 25). But he is perhaps the most ravishing watercolourist ever: everything he did makes one swoon. It made Delacroix swoon -- and anything that contributed to Delacroix's watercolours, the ones of Morocco being among the greatest watercolours ever, in my opinion, but I digress -- is worth hunting out) it will do the same for you. Bonington's influence was pervasive: I particularly relish the Francia-Bonington-Isabey-Boudin-Monet thread. But there are so many others. Every watercolourist should have a copy of this, and if the rest of the painters of the world are smart, they will get one too.
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Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Patrick J. Noon (Hardcover - February 17, 2009)
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