Christian Brard: Eccentric Modernist

(Hardback)

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Christian Brard worked freely in many artistic circles and fields, as a painter, designer of theater and film sets and costumes, fashion designer, interior designer, masterful draftsman, and colorist. His iconic drawings epitomized the Paris fashion world and graced the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Women's Wear Daily in the 1920s and 1930s. Tracing his eccentric and colorful life of encounters and artistic partnerships with the greatest creatives of his time-Jean-Michel Frank, Christian Dior, Gabrielle Chanel, Jean Cocteau, Boris Kochno-this book positions Brard in his rightful place in the center of Parisian art world in the 1930s and 1940s. The monograph includes more than two hundred of his paintings, drawings, photographs, intimate correspondence, and interior decorations, along with portraits of Brard by Cartier Bresson, Horst, and Schall.

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Clia Bernasconi is chief curator at the Nouveau Muse National de Monaco.

Jrme Hanover is a journalist specializing in fashion and luxury.

Pierre Passebon is a collector and founder of the Galerie du Passage in Paris.

Tirza True Latimer is professor emerita at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Nick Mauss is a multi-disciplinary artist.

Aurlie Verdier is curator at the Muse National d'Art Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Marika Genty is heritage delegate at Chanel, Paris.