{Modern Art [continued (10)]}[Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

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‘… The suggestion* of an art based on the notion of pure colour was suggested* by several sources. The example of Delacroix had a deep significance for the 19th century in France, but it is possible that knowledge of painting in England – “that home of fanatical colourists,”** as Baudelaire had called it – was also a stimulus. The description of Théophile Gautier, a friend of Manet, of the prismatic color of the English painter William Holman Hunt’s “Strayed Sheep” when it was shown at the Exposition Universelle in 1855[ce] reads like an anticipation of the new style.

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*[sic]

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(cf Romanesque/Gothic cathedral windows)

*** [– ibid (Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:367)]

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