Download or read book Giovanni Boldini: Selected Drawings written by Vasily Tesi and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giovanni Boldini (1842 - 1931 painted mostly portraits and also landscapes in the naturalistic style of his day, influenced by the Macchiaioli schooled artists he knew in Florence, and worked on engravings, with pastels, watercolors and etchings. He became the most fashionable portrait painter in Paris in the late 19th century, with a dashing style of painting which shows some Impressionist influence but which most closely resembles the work of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Paul Helleu. Only toward the end of his long life, did his style change, using mainly dark, rich colors.