tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post5035623468731742246..comments2023-10-31T12:17:42.008+00:00Comments on Adventures in the Print Trade: More on Jeanne BardeyNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-14442569585534373872010-08-30T17:51:06.943+01:002010-08-30T17:51:06.943+01:00I should have said that, self-portrait or not, I t...I should have said that, self-portrait or not, I think the unusual posture shows the model in Étude twirling herself round in a revolving chair. I'm not quite sure when the revolving chair was invented, but suspect it was probably quite new - no, Wikipedia tells me that Thomas Jefferson invented it in 1776.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-29947527297869125652010-08-30T17:11:47.710+01:002010-08-30T17:11:47.710+01:00Jane - I rather suspect that the pose in Étude may...Jane - I rather suspect that the pose in Étude may be a self-portrait in a mirror. But the loose-limbed fluency of the composition is rather like the drawings and watercolours Rodin was making around this time. Many of these were exhibited at the Galerie Devambez in 1908, in the first show at the gallery, which was run by Georges Weil. The Rodin show caused shock and outrage because of the erotic nature of many of the drawings. The sculptor F. W. Ruckstull was horrified, writing disapprovingly: "In his exhibition of drawings, held October 19, 1908, in the Galerie Devambez, in Paris, he showed the most libidinous set of drawings ever exposed to an invited public, in which there were at least two that were frankly pornographic and for which show he was, by both French and foreign people, called 'beast,' 'monster,' 'vulgar charlatan', 'sadist,' etc." Others were charmed and delighted by the freshness of Rodin’s work. The foreword to the catalogue praised the "bold, truthful images", while the critic of Le Journal wrote that, "One cannot find in these hundred and fifty sketches and drawings of Rodin a single note seen before."Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-65414199966764572222010-08-30T16:01:49.696+01:002010-08-30T16:01:49.696+01:00What a curious and playful pose that is in "E...What a curious and playful pose that is in "Etude" (fresco). I wonder what inspired it. I like Bardey's "Ophelie" for its concentration on the face, reminding us that Ophelia was a person, not merely a symbol.Jane Librizzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03943563452168571716noreply@blogger.com