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Watteau in Venice (French: La fête à Venise) is a novel by French author Philippe Sollers published in 1991 by Editions Gallimard, later translated into English by Alberto Manguel, and then published in 1994 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
- Philippe Sollers
- 240
- Fiction
- New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1994 (first English edition)
30 de sept. de 1994 · In present-day Venice, a cynical French writer awaits the sale of a stolen Watteau masterpiece, La Fete 'a Venise, whose transfer between two yachts he is to supervise. As he exchanges pseudonymous faxes with his confederates across the globe, he swims, sunbathes and makes love with Luz, an astrophysics student from L.A., and ponders ...
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- Hardcover
- Philippe Sollers
Watteau in Venice: A Novel : Sollers, Philippe, Manguel, Alberto: Amazon.com.mx: Libros
1 de ene. de 1991 · Watteau in Venice. Philippe Sollers. 3.26. 39 ratings4 reviews. The narrator, a corrupt French intellectual, awaits orders for the disposal of a stolen painting by Watteau. Genres France Fiction. 240 pages, Hardcover. First published January 1, 1991. Book details & editions. About the author. Philippe Sollers. 148 books73 followers. Follow.
Watteau’s artistic legacy pervades French art up to the emergence of Neoclassicism. The sweetness of his palette, an homage to Rubens and the colorism of sixteenth-century Venetian painting recast in delicate pastels to suit the scale and aesthetic of Rococo décor, was widely followed, as was his preference for erotic genre subjects adapted ...
Froissart, a cynical and slightly corrupt French intellectual, awaits an order to ship a priceless stolen painting by the great eighteenth-century French master Watteau. Holed up in a luxurious...
Watteau in Venice. Philippe Sollers. Scribner Book Company, $22 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-684-19451-6. Cloak-and-dagger intrigue behind the scenes of the international art trade spawns acerbic...
