Theatres of Melancholy: The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond

An in-depth illustrated study of the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favor of a new form of figurative painting.

In 1926, the Galerie Druet in Paris made waves presenting a group of young painters, consisting of an international group of artists: Christian Bérard and Thérèse Debains, both French; Russians Pavel Tchelitchew and the brothers Eugene and Leonid Berman; and the Dutchman Kristians Tonny. These artists ha...