Giovanni Boldini

November 22nd, 2009 admin

Giovanni Boldini was an Italian painter and printmaker, renowned for his fluid, sweeping portraits of society women. He is frequently associated with John Singer Sargent, sharing some of his dramatic, facile brushwork as well as his international lifestyle, living and working in Paris and London for much of his career. Sargent an Boldini knew one another and moved in the same circles. Boldini took over a studio on Boulevard Berthier in Paris from Sargent when he moved to another. Boldini was also friends with Courbet, Manet and Degas, and apparently knew Whistler , at least well enough to paint his portrait . Boldini encountered the Italian painters known as the Macchiaoli (also here ), who were Italian precursors to Impressionism, in his early years …


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