Christian Bérard Eccentric Modernist

A groundbreaking monograph on one of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century.

Christian Bérard worked freely in many artistic circles and fields as a painter, designer of theater and film sets and costumes, fashion designer, interior designer, masterful draftsman, and colorist. His iconic drawings epitomized the Paris fashion world and graced the covers of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Women’s Wear Daily in the 1920s and 1930s. Tracing his eccentric and colorful life of encounters and artistic partnerships with the greatest creatives of his time—Jean-Michel Frank, Christian Dior, Gabrielle Chanel, Jean Cocteau, Boris Kochno—this book includes more than two hundred of his paintings, drawings, photographs, intimate correspondences, and interior decorations, along with portraits of Bérard by Cartier-Bresson, Horst, and Schall.
 

Célia Bernasconi is chief curator at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. Jérôme Hanover is a journalist specializing in fashion and luxury. Pierre Passebon is a collector and founder of the Galerie du Passage in Paris. Tirza True Latimer is professor emerita at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Nick Mauss is a multidisciplinary artist. Aurélie Verdier is curator at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Marika Genty is heritage delegate at Chanel Paris.