בידספיריט | Kisling edited by Jean Kisling Harry.

Kisling edited by Jean Kisling Harry. Abrams New York 1971 - hardcover withDJ 323 pp fair condition In Paris, during the early decades of the twentieth century, la vie de bohème found its most colorful exponent in the painter Kisling, a man whose zest for life was matched only by his passion for painting. Kisling looked to France as the only country in which a painter could live, work, and grow; he left his native Poland in 1910 and spent the next forty years in Paris and Sanary. Modigliani, Pascin, Braque, and Soutine were his friends, but his warmth and unbridled exuberance were known to everyone in Montmartre and Montparnasse. For Kisling, mere participation in life was not enough; he reveled in it and inspired others to join in his paean to the joys of living and creating. Kisling's paintings confirm his ebullient na- ture; they are brilliantly colored memoirs of, his world-landscapes, portraits, still lifes, flowers, and women. He painted in undiluted hues because he painted for posterity, keenly aware that time dimi- nishes a pigment's intensity. The outrageously bright flower arrangements, the languorous, pale- skinned nudes draped on colorful Persian shawls, the elegant wide-eyed portraits-all are the products of a very personal vision. Joseph Kessel, noted writer and critic and member of the Académie Française, has written a delightful text about his friend, including Kisling's recollections as well as his own. Of particular interest to the student and scholar are the detailed biographical outline, the selected bibliography, and the complete list of exhibitions-augmented with critical writings by Kisling's contemporaries. Jean Kisling has gathered his father's paintings from private collections and museums all over the world to form the most complete catalogue of Kisling's oeuvre ever published. More than 650 illustrations, many in full color, are a testament to Kisling's extraordinary creative energy.