WITHDRAWN No longer the property of the Boston Public Library. Sale of this material benefits the Library, Monet Bazille A Collaboration essays by Kermk Champa ALLSTON BRANCH Swiler LIBRARY High Museum or Art Dianne W. Pitman in association with edited by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers David A. Brenneman Monet Bazille A Collaboration Monet cjfBazille:A Collaboration was onviewatthe High Museum ofArt Atlanta, Georgia February 23-May 16, 1999 The exhibitionwas organizedbythe High Museum ofArt. Texts copyright© 1998 bytheAuthors. Compilation copyright© 1998 bythe High Museum ofArt. All rights reserved. No partofthisbookmaybe reproduced in anyformwithoutwritten permission from the publisher. Distributed in 1999 byHarryN. Abrams, Inc., NewYork HarryN.Abrams, Inc. 100FifthAvenue NewYork, NY. 10011 www.abramsbooks.com LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Champa, Kermit Swiler. Monet& Bazille a collaboration / essaysbyKermit : SwilerChampa andDianneW. Pitman editedbyDavidA. ; Brenneman. p. cm. Catalogofan exhibition held at the High Museum ofArt, Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27-May 16, 1999. Includes bibliographical references. isbn 0-8109-6384-1 (hardcov—er : alk. paper) 1. Monet, Claude,—1840-1926 Exhibitions. 2. Bazille, Frede—ric, 184—1-1870 Exhibitions. 3.Artistic collabora- tion France Exhibitions. I. Pitman, DianneW., 1955- . II. Brenneman, DavidA. III. High Museum ofArt. IV. Title. V. Title: Monetand Bazille. ND553.M7A4 1999 759-4—dc2i 98-31450 For the High Museum ofArt KellyMorris, ManagerofPublications AnnaBloomfield,Associate Editor MelissaWargo,AssistantEditor Produced byMarquand Books, Inc., Seattle DesignedbySusan E. Kelly ProofreadbySherri Schultz and MarieWeiler PrintedbyCS Graphics Pte., Ltd., Singapore Pages 2-3: (top)Frederic Bazille, TheBeach atSainte-Adresse (detail), 1865, cat. 1; (bottom)Claude Monet, SeasideatSainte- Adresse(detail), 1864, cat. 2. Page 18: Frederic Bazille, TheQueen's GateatAigues-Mortes (detail), 1867, cat. 16. Page 66: Claude Monet, TheBodmerOak, FontainebleauForest, theChaillyRoad (detail), 1865, cat. 11. Contents Acknowledgments DavidA. Brenneman 7 Preface NedRi/kin 9 Introduction DavidA. Brenneman 11 Overlapping Frames Dianne W. Pitman 19 A Complicated Codependence KermitSwilerChampa 67 Chronology CompiledbyPhaedra Siebert 97 Selected Bibliography 101 Checklist ofthe Exhibition 105 & Monet Bazille:A Collaborationis organized by the High Museum ofArt. The exhibition has been made possible by theJames Starr Moore Memorial Exhibition Fund. Generous support has also been provided byEquity Office, the Exposition Foundation, Inc., The Forward Arts Foundation, Inc. ofAtlanta, Livingston Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.