Fragonard's Progress of Love (Frick Diptych) by Hollinghurst, Alan 2024 NEUF

Product Name: Fragonard's Progress of Love (Frick Diptych) by Hollinghurst, Alan 2024 NEUF
EAN：9781911282983 UPC：9781911282983 ISBN：9781911282983 MPN：N/A Format：Hardback, 112 pages
An essay by Xavier F. Salomon paired with a contribution by award-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst bring to life Jean-Honoré Fragonards (1732–1806) Progress of Love, a series of fourteen paintings considered by many to be the artists masterpiece. The paitings were commissioned in 1771 for the comtesse du Barry, to be installed in 1772 in Louveciennes, the pavilion outside Paris built for her by her lover, Louis XV. By 1773 the canvases, The Pursuit, The Meeting, The Lover Crowned, and Love Letters, had been rejected by Du Barry and returned to the artist. In 1790 Fragonard moved the canvases to his cousins house, the Villa Maubert, in Grasse, and over the course of the year painted ten additional panels: two large-scale works, Love Triumphant and Reverie; four narrow "strips" depicting hollyhocks, and four overdoors of putti. Sold by the Maubert estate to the dealer Agnews in 1898, the works were later purchased in 2024 February 1915 by the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. By May 1916 the panels were installed at Fricks new mansion in New York in the present-day Fragonard Room in The Frick Collection. AUTHORS: Alan Hollinghurst is an award-winning novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize for his acclaimed novel The Line of Beauty (2004). His next novel, The Strangers Child, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011. Xavier F. Salomon is Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, New York. 65 colour illustrations.