Mem.--Histoire de l'art--Paris, 1995.

Thesis (B.A.)--Bryn Mawr College, Dept. of Art, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1863-1901) está presente no acervo do Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) com onze obras que expõem diferentes momentos do percurso do artista, englobando mais de vinte anos de produção. A partir desse conjunto, o presente trabalho propõe a análise dessas obras, assim como as conjunturas de aquisição e de suas coleções anteriores à entrada no acervo do museu. Buscamos compreendê-las dentro do espaço do museu como objetos carregados de história, que permitem entender a obra e vida do artista, assim como as questões encadeadas pela trajetória dessas obras até o museu. / Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1863-1901) is present in the collection of the São Paulo Museum of Art Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) with eleven artworks that expose different moments of the artist\'s journey, encompassing more than twenty years of production. This research proposes to examine this set of artworks, as well as situations of acquisition and their previous collections at the entrance to the museum\'s collection, We seek to understand them within the museum space as historical objects, which allow us to understand the work and the artist\'s life, as well as issues posed by the trajectory of these works to the museum.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1863-1901) está presente no acervo do Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) com onze obras que expõem diferentes momentos do percurso do artista, englobando mais de vinte anos de produção. A partir desse conjunto, o presente trabalho propõe a análise dessas obras, assim como as conjunturas de aquisição e de suas coleções anteriores à entrada no acervo do museu. Buscamos compreendê-las dentro do espaço do museu como objetos carregados de história, que permitem entender a obra e vida do artista, assim como as questões encadeadas pela trajetória dessas obras até o museu. / Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1863-1901) is present in the collection of the São Paulo Museum of Art Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) with eleven artworks that expose different moments of the artist\'s journey, encompassing more than twenty years of production. This research proposes to examine this set of artworks, as well as situations of acquisition and their previous collections at the entrance to the museum\'s collection, We seek to understand them within the museum space as historical objects, which allow us to understand the work and the artist\'s life, as well as issues posed by the trajectory of these works to the museum.

Cette thèse ambitionne de définir le rôle de la marchande d’art Berthe Weill dans l’avènement de l’art moderne. À l’origine du baptême d’un nombre considérable d’artistes plus tard couronnés par le marché, son patrimoine demeure méconnu et en grande partie oublié. Occupant à la fois un statut de mécène et de découvreuse, de médiatrice et d’éditrice, elle initia à l’ouverture de son commerce en 1901 une impulsion vers la jeune peinture alors encore dépourvue de représentant. Pionnière féministe, elle usa des moyens de communication à sa disposition pour diffuser ses opinions, osant un usage véritablement politique de ses cimaises et de ses colonnes. Cette étude vise à mieux appréhender sa position dans la hiérarchie du marché de l’art moderne, en observant le contexte sociétal qui encouragea et brida ses initiatives. En quarante ans de carrière, cette femme issue d’une famille juive pauvre traversa les deux guerres mondiales, en s’imposant comme une personnalité incontournable de la vie culturelle parisienne. Sans fonds préexistant auquel se référer, des archives relatives à la Galerie B.Weill ont été entièrement reconstituées, permettant un premier bilan validant son rôle de pivot dans la carrière d’artistes majeurs de la première moitié du XXe siècle. A travers le truchement de ces archives sont soulevées des problématiques plus larges liées à la discipline de la recherche de provenance : sur les questions d’authentification, mais aussi sur les spoliations antisémites durant l’Occupation et la difficulté d’accès aux données marchandes malgré les mesures légales en place pour garantir la probité du patrimoine. / The ambition of this thesis is to define the role of the art merchant Bethe Weill, in the birth of modern art. Behind the discovery of a considerable number of artists who were later crowned with success by the market, her legacy remains misunderstood and mostly forgotten. In her multiple roles as sponsor and discoverer, mediator and editor, she initiated, with the opening of her gallery in 1901, a drive toward new painting, a movement until then bereft of a spokesperson. A feminist pioneer, she used all the means of communication at her disposal to disseminate her opinions, daring to make her gallery walls and columns a site for political statements. This study hopes to elucidate her position in the hierarchy of the modern art market, looking at the societal context which encouraged or restrained her initiatives. In a career spanning forty years, this woman from a poor Jewish family lived through two world wars and established herself as a major figure in Parisian cultural life. Without a pre-existent archival foundation to which one might refer, the archives relating to the B. Weill Gallery had to be entirely reconstructed, giving initial results which validate her pivotal role in the careers of major artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Through the intermediary of these archives larger issues are raised in connection to research on provenance: questions of authentication, but also on Anti-Semitic spoliations during the Occupation and the difficulty of access to market data in spite of the legal measures in place to guarantee patrimonial probity.

Pesquisa sobre Dramaturgia do ator e Tradução Intersemiótica como formas de pensar a Interpretação e a Encenação, respectivamente. Com este objetivo, aproxima-se o signo teatral de outras linguagens -- Artes Plásticas e Cinema -- para, através dos Estudos Genéticos, compreender o processo criativo que nos levou a dois exercícios cênicos: Efêmea e ...E fêmea. / This is a research about Dramaturgy of the actor and Intersemiotic Translation as a way of thinking about Acting and Staging, respectively. In order to do so, we relate the theatrical sing to other languages -- Crafts and Cinema -- for understanding, through Genetics Studies, the creative process which conducted us to both scenic exercises: Efêmea and ...E fêmea

Pesquisa sobre Dramaturgia do ator e Tradução Intersemiótica como formas de pensar a Interpretação e a Encenação, respectivamente. Com este objetivo, aproxima-se o signo teatral de outras linguagens -- Artes Plásticas e Cinema -- para, através dos Estudos Genéticos, compreender o processo criativo que nos levou a dois exercícios cênicos: Efêmea e ...E fêmea. / This is a research about Dramaturgy of the actor and Intersemiotic Translation as a way of thinking about Acting and Staging, respectively. In order to do so, we relate the theatrical sing to other languages -- Crafts and Cinema -- for understanding, through Genetics Studies, the creative process which conducted us to both scenic exercises: Efêmea and ...E fêmea

This thesis examines the relationships cabaret dancer Jane Avril formed with artist Toulouse-Lautrec and photographer Paul Sescau. As the star dancer of the Moulin rouge, Avril enlisted these two artists to create promotional images for her that set her apart from other performers in the competitive entertainment scene of the 1890s. This ability to direct her own advertisement methods was a creative opportunity that was available to few women during this time. These three figures were friends and artistic partners who lived in the outcast of society in fin-de-siecle Montmartre where they worked together and supported one another. Their many collaborations prove that Avril as well aware of the power she had in commissioning the most successful avant-garde artists of her time. This thesis studies Toulouse Lautrec’s painting Jane Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge in chapter one, his poster, Jardin de Paris in chapter two, and Paul Sescau’s photograph of Avril in chapter three. Moving from Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting and poster to Paul Sescau’s photograph, I will show how Avril utilized multiple mediums to disseminate her image across Paris. Ultimately, mass media afforded Avril the most direct agency in shaping her public image. These collaborations prove that Toulouse-Lautrec in particular had an acute awareness of the public persona Avril crafted as a sophisticated yet unorthodox dancer.

Throughout the history of art, the pastel medium has been considered a medium of secondary interest. Despite its pulsating textures, vibrant colors, and unique receptivity to touch, this medium has been recognized above all for its swiftness in stroke and subsequent ability of the artist to record images of fleeting moments and ideas almost instantaneously. The focus on the advantageous rapidity of the pastel, however, hindered the pastel medium's potential as a mere preliminary technique to working with grander mediums, such as oil paint, thus failing to recognize the prominence of pastel in capturing character. This research endeavor focuses on a very specific era with comparably high usage of pastel-- late nineteenth-century Paris--and the distinctive characteristic that defines said era--the hyper-sexuality of the Parisian prostitute. The eminent presence of prostitution and the consequential iconography of female sexuality in late nineteenth-century Paris defined the world of French Bohemia and seeped into the artistic exchange of the era. Although holding a traditionally subsidiary position to other historically primary mediums, the pastel medium prevailed in communicating the sexuality, sensuality, and promiscuity of the sinful female in Paris at the close of the century. The pastel works of prominent artists in the nightlife milieu such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Edgar Degas which revolve around the theme of prostitution serve as key illustrations of the distinctive ability of the ephemeral medium to capture the mood and personality--and therefore the sensual quintessence--of its subject. Through contextual and visual analysis, this research endeavor thus ultimately aims to lift the traditionally secondary pastel medium to one of impressive proportions, emphasizing its unique advantages and raising its overall credence.