ISBN：9781741741384  

书名：John Russell: Australia's French impressionist / 约翰·罗素：澳大利亚的法国印象派画家

作者：Wayne Tunnicliffe

出版：University of Washington Press，2018

装帧：精装，240页，150幅插图

语种：英文

开本：22 × 28 cm

内容提要：

本书收录了对于约翰·罗素的新研究，重新审视了他的作品。澳大利亚艺术家约翰·罗素（1858-1930年）为了追求艺术而移居欧洲，并成为法国19世纪先锋派中活跃和有影响力的成员之一。他是梵高和罗丹的密友，他向马蒂斯教授印象派色彩理论，并与莫奈共进晚餐。他的作品被阿姆斯特丹梵高博物馆、巴黎奥赛博物馆和罗丹博物馆、伦敦国家美术馆、澳大利亚国家美术馆和新南威尔士州美术馆收藏。

Australian artist John Russell (1858–1930), an active and influential member of the French nineteenth-century avant garde, was a close friend of Vincent van Gogh and Auguste Rodin, taught impressionist color theory to Henri Matisse, and dined with Claude Monet on Belle Isle. His work held in the collections of the Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, the Musee d’Orsay and Musée Rodin in Paris, and the National Gallery London, as well as the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Significant new research brings Russell to life as both a person and an artist, and his work deserves serious reconsideration. Born in Sydney, he was destined to be an engineer in the highly successful family businesses, but after inheriting money he pursued his passion to be an artist, moving to London in 1881 to study, and then to France, where he formed a close friendship with van Gogh. In 1888 he married Marianna Antoinetta Mattiocco (later a model for Rodin) and they settled at Belle Isle off the coast of Brittany, in a grand home, Le Chateau Anglais, where they hosted many artists, including Rodin, over the ensuing decades. Following Marianna’s death in 1908, Russell left Belle Isle, travelling in France, Italy, and then to England and New Zealand before returning to Watsons Bay in Sydney where he lived until his death in 1930.