 This elegant and informative volume, inspired by the pioneering 1909 color book Paris, offers a new way of looking at the sights and social history of this much-loved European city.
Every painting from Mortimer Menpes’s original book has been reproduced and enlarged for these pages, and each is placed in contemporary context with related images, from period maps and postcards to newspapers and railway tickets, as well as narrative on Paris in the early twentieth century.
Mortimer Menpes was born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1856, and moved with his family to England in the 1870s. During the 1880s he was a studio assistant to James McNeill Whistler, whose style he much admired and emulated. His paintings appeared in more than twenty books, starting with the pioneering A&C Black book War Impressions in 1901, based on his experience as a war artist during the Boer War. He died in 1938.
75 paintings by Mortimer Menpes
Written by Solange Hando
with Colin Inman, Florence Besson
and Roberta Faulhaber-Razafy
Worth Press Ltd, October 2008
270mm x 245mm
176 pages in full colour
£14.99
ISBN 978 1 903025 67 3
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