Some of them. G. Moreau - Degas - Chéret - Wisthler - Rops -
Le Monstre - Le Fer, etc. Paris, Tresse & Stock, 1889.
In-12 of 230 pp. and (1) blank page: plum half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed, untrimmed, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (later binding).
First edition.
One of 15 copies on japan (no. 15).
A collection of criticisms in the tradition of L'Art moderne (1883): praise for the Impressionists, called the Independents, and for artists with whom Huysmans had close relations.
He rejects the lack of discernment of his contemporaries and the official glories in order to defend
Cézanne, Degas, Forain, Gustave Moreau, Raffaëlli or Félicien Rops.
Félix Fénéon saw him as "the inventor of Impressionism". In 1893, Roger Marx praised "the double gift of divination and expression, which makes the aesthetic writings of J.K.
Huysmans definitive pages and their author in this time, not a judge among judges, but a unique personality: the critic of modern art."
A fine copy from the Jacques Odry library, with bookplate.
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