tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post3500374586982319830..comments2023-10-31T12:17:42.008+00:00Comments on Adventures in the Print Trade: La Bande NoireNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-29031700224706073892009-09-24T22:32:47.042+01:002009-09-24T22:32:47.042+01:00James - Absolutely delighted to discover your blog...James - Absolutely delighted to discover your blog, which of course I will link to. Don't know how I missed it till now. No, I haven't seen The Story of High Street yet - I had a lunch arranged with Tim, and had to put that off, and - well, you know how time goes by. Thanks for the kind comments.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-88251779360879650542009-09-24T22:27:46.245+01:002009-09-24T22:27:46.245+01:00Jane - Both the etchings you single out are detail...Jane - Both the etchings you single out are details from major works by Cottet. Douleur shows three grieving women from the background of a painting of the same year now in the Musée d'Orsay. Cottet also made an etching of the whole scene, though on this smaller scale I think the detail is more moving. Bretonne, which I have tried to photograph twice now and still am not happy with the image, shows in close-up one of the women sitting by the fire in the etching Les feux de la Saint-Jean. The catalogue raisonné by Morane gives the title as Bretonne en cape de deuil. so evidently she is in mourning. These images of grief are very powerful, but Cottet was just as good at images of joy - Morane's book has some vital and sensuous images (much more Nabis than Nubian) including a fantastic etching of the dancer Loie Fuller.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-42389395889780749552009-09-24T16:21:39.841+01:002009-09-24T16:21:39.841+01:00'Marine' is wonderful and your commentary ...'Marine' is wonderful and your commentary bright as ever. I wonder if you've seen a copy of 'The Story of High Street' yet - you posted about it before the book was published last year. I wrote the essay 'High Street at Seventy', and have also just completed 'Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs' for the Mainstone Press. Should be out in November. Info on my blog at jamesrussellontheweb.blogspot.com - please do link if you enjoy it.James Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-80911452293079825242009-09-23T19:28:39.908+01:002009-09-23T19:28:39.908+01:00Charles Cottet is an artist I've wanted to kno...Charles Cottet is an artist I've wanted to know more about and now you have filled in the blank. There is a portrait of Cottet by Rene Menard at the Musee D'Orsay that shows him with a long beard in one of the umber shades that Cottet often used in his work. Of the artists hee, Cottet seems to have entered into the spirits of the people and the place more deeply than the others. "Douleur" and "Bretonne" would be hard to forget.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com