Eugène Delacroix, Lion Hunt, 1860/61 (detail) Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.404.

SOLD OUT – Patrick Noon | Eugène Delacroix & Modernity

By his death in 1863, Eugène Delacroix was the most revered and influential artist in Paris. Often described as the last painter of the Grand Style, he was equally one of the first modern masters. Succeeding generations of painters persisted in paying homage to his achievements and in exploring his aesthetic theories. Paul Signac, in his seminal treatise D’Eugène Delacroix au Néo-Impressionnisme, credited this genius of Romanticism with liberating color and technique irrevocably from traditional rules and practice, while Paul Cézanne famously observed, “We all paint in Delacroix’s language.” This talk will illuminate how and why this was so.

Patrick Noon is Elizabeth MacMillan Chair of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and curator of the exhibition “Delacroix’s Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from Cézanne to van Gogh.”

$10; $5 MIA members, free for Paintings Affinity Group members. To register, call 612.870.6323 or reserve online.

Free, unticketed overflow in Wells Fargo Room.

_{Eugène Delacroix, Lion Hunt, 1860/61 (detail) Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.404.}