University of Edinburgh Collecting and Art Market Research Cluster

Please join us on Tuesday 18 May 2021 - 17:30-18:45 BST for a lecture and discussion with Simon Kelly (Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum):

'Theodore Rousseau and An Artist's Marketing Strategies in Nineteenth-Century France'

This talk examines the various innovative marketing strategies developed by the Barbizon landscape painter, Theodore Rousseau (1812-1867). It addresses Rousseau's fresh approaches to the exhibition of his work, his cultivation of extensive dealer and auction house networks, and the internationalization of his artistic project within a rapidly expanding nineteenth-century art market. Rousseau's example will be placed within the context of his artistic peers in order to highlight the extent of his difference.

Simon Kelly is Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. He has written extensively on nineteenth and early twentieth-century French art, with a particular focus on Barbizon and Impressionist landscape painting. His work examines the relationship between artists and their wider cultural markets.  His new book, Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market: An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in 19th-Century France, is published in spring, 2021.

This event is hosted by the University of Edinburgh Collecting and Art Market Research Cluster. The interdisciplinary Collecting and Art Market Research Cluster welcomes all those interested in collecting, the art market and related issues. The cluster provides a forum for discussion and presentation through holding regular seminars, workshops and talks by invited speakers, as well as Edinburgh-based researchers – both students and staff, and from disciplines as diverse as art history, business and sociology. Individuals have the opportunity to present their latest findings to a specialist audience in a relaxed environment.

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