CANADA---You may not have heard of Gustave Doré, but you’ve seen his art. The 19th century’s most famous illustrator was so influential that his compositions made it into the paintings of Picasso and Van Gogh and the films of Cecil B. DeMille, Orson Wells, Terry Gilliam and Roman Polanski. And then there’s David Beckham’s lower right torso, which shows off a tattoo of a sitting Christ lifted straight from the French artist’s engraving The Agony in the Garden. Although a legend in his day, the Strasbourg-born colossus remains largely unknown in the 21st century, a fact that “can be blamed on art history,” says Paul Lang, the National Gallery of Canada’s deputy director and chief curator, who brought Gustave Doré: Master of Imagination to Ottawa, where it will be on show from June 13 through September (following its run at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay).[link]
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