Giovanni Boldini

Giovanni Boldini ( born December 31, 1842 in Ferrara, † January 12, 1931 in Paris) was an Italian- French Impressionist painters. He was one of the most sought-after portrait painter in the Belle Époque.

Life

Giovanni Boldini came from a famous family of painters of Ferrara. He took his first drawing lessons from his father and brother in law, who advised him strongly to continue studying in Florence. He studied six years (1862-1868) at the Florentine Academy and developed after studying a penchant for outdoor painting. On the paths of the plein air painters and impressionists always been progressive as possible, he made his edgy, sketchy, spraying technique, which he also the genre and the countryside, later more and more of portraiture subservient made ​​to the him his keen eye for the individual in a facial or a figure particularly gifted.

After a long stay in London - let Boldini in 1872 settled in Paris. Within a short time he made ​​the acquaintance of the famous artists of the city, including James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Robert de Montesquiou, Philip Alexius de Laszlo and Paul César Helleu. With Edgar Degas soon joined him a close friend. Boldini became established in the 1880s as a successful painter of portraits Boulevard of the rich and famous.

At the Exposition Universelle (1889 ) Giovanni Boldini took over as acting head of the Italian section of the exhibition and was raised on an officer of the Legion d' Honneur one year.

In 2010, the 147 x 114 cm oil painting Portrait de madame de Florian was at a resolution flat in Paris discovered and sold at auction in September 2010 for a record price of 1.7 million euros.

Giovanni Boldini, photographed, 1910

Self Portrait, Oil on canvas, 1911

Portrait de madame de Florian, oil on canvas, about 1900-1910