Talk:Post-Impressionism

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[edit] Please add a link to the french page

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Link exists. --RPD 23:20, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First use of term

The Oxford Dictionary cites the following usages in order:

1910 C. HOLMES in Notes on Post-Impressionist Painters, 11
1910 The December issue of the Connoisseur 315/2

Which of these — if either — is attributable to Fry? Or does Fry's usage pre-date these? Stumps 14:30, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

According to Alan Bowness (Introduction to Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting, London 1979-1980, p. 9), the term was coined in a discussion between Fry, Desmond MacCarthy (secretary of the exhibition at the Grafton Galleries) and an anonymous journalist, before the opening of Manet and the Post-Impressionists, which took place November 8th, 1910. MacCarthy ascribed the term to Fry. - An exhaustive commentary on the show is provided by Anna Gruetzner Robins, Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914, London 1997. --RPD 19:00, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

By the way, do you find entries on mile-stone exhibitions like The Volpini Exhibition, 1889 helpful? If so, Fry's exhibition should also receive an entry. RPD 19:10, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

my suggestion :