DICTIONNAIRE DES PEINTRES A MONTMARTRE

by André Roussard

Galery Roussard Editions, 1999.

French book. 640 pages of text, 4285 biographies. Size: 30 X 21 cm.

Comprehensive collection of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, Illustrators, Illustrators, Plastic artists who had a workshop in Montmartre in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

The dictionary contains 4285 biographies covering the period from 1800 to 1999, including avant-garde painters from Romanticism to Surrealism, academic painters and minor masters, as well as contemporary painters.

Many biographies are unpublished. The corpus of the dictionary is preceded by a history of Montmartre, centered more specifically on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. it is followed by appendices on the numerous quoted artists, on the streets of Montmartre, the artists of the Sacred Heart & thanks to all those who contributed in one way or another to research.

The set tells the complete story of a legendary place without forgetting the picturesque characters. more than 10,000 names appear, the journeymen of the great masters, poets, writers, critics, merchants, cabarets and art cafés. An unforgettable saga telling the genesis of the great artistic movements, the life of the artists in the village, the anecdotes.

The historic Montmartre includes the eighteenth arrondissement, the north of the IX and part of the Batignolles, covering what was the territory of the Abbey of the Ladies of Montmartre for seven centuries.