Eugene Fromentin: The Land of Thirst, circa 1869

Since the first edition of this book, La Vie et l'oeuvre d'Eugene Fromentin, published in 1987 and awarded the Roger Bonniot Prize by the Academie de Saintonge in 1988, over sixty paintings and drawings by Eugene Fromentin have appeared on the market. To complete the Correspondance generale of this painter ...more

This, the first biography in English of Eugene Fromentin, seeks to follow on earlier publications focusing on the literary works, the visual art and the correspondence of the nineteenth-century French painter, novelist, traveller and art critic. It gives an overview of the complex relationship between word and image in his ...more

The Orient pervades the whole of Eugene Fromentin s painted work and travel writings. Born at La Rochelle, he grew up contemplating the vanishing lines of the Atlantic horizon. This perspective prepared him to confront another great immensity which seemed to him like a colourless sea: the desert. Fromentin studied ...more

"Between Sea and Sahara gives us Algeria in the third decade of colonization. Written in the 1850s by the gifted painter and extraordinary writer Eugene Fromentin, the many-faceted work is travelogue, fiction, stylized memoir, and essay on art."--BOOK JACKET. "Fromentin paints a word picture of Algeria and its people, questioning ...more