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Parisian Sketches

First published in 1880, same year as Edgar Degas` The Dancing Lesson and Edouard Manet`s solo show of brasserie paintings at La Vie Moderne gallery, J.-K. Huysmans` Parisian Sketches shares with these vibrant Impressionist works a fascination with the contemporary life of Paris, an exuberant Paris in the era of the Opรฉra Garnier and the Folies-Bergรจres. Like the striking images of the early Impressionists, whom Huysmans championed when it was unfashionable to do so, Parisian Sketches is an all-out assault on the visual senses. Composed of a series of intense, meticulously observed impressions – of cafรฉ concerts and circus performers, of streetwalkers and hot-chestnut sellers, of run-down slums and forgotten quarters in the grimy, shiny `City of Light`- Parisian Sketches recreates the Paris of the bal masquรฉ and the cancan, the brasseries ร  femme and the buveurs d`absinthe, all captured with an intimacy and an immediacy that confirms Huysmans as one of the masters of 19th century French prose. Huysmans captures the pre-Haussmann Paris which was soon to disappear with his big boulevards and extensive building programme. An impressionist masterpiece in words.

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