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bullfighting
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Paris-born Alexandre Lunois began making reproductive prints as a teenager. As a mature artist, Lunois established his reputation as an artist-printmaker and illustrator whose original compositions drew upon his extensive travels--in the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Italy, and Turkey.
Lunois made the Spanish bullfighting scenes displayed here at the height of his skills, five years after he had begun to make the color lithographs for which he is best known, and after he had shared his expertise in the related medium of lithotint with the younger artists Pierre Bonnard and Eduoard Vuillard.
At Amherst, these compelling images--with their asymmetrical compositions likely inspired by the example of Japanese prints--complement a distinguished collection of early French lithographs made by artists including Gericault, Delacroix, and Daumier.
EEB, 2013
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