Overview
Stanley Roseman's work has received wide critical acclaim, including outstanding reviews in The New York Times and The Times, London, and his work is represented in many important museum collections throughout the world. Recognized as a master draughtsman, Roseman is the first American artist to be given a one-man exhibition at Vienna's renowned Albertina (1983), containing one of the world's greatest collections of drawings.The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, in celebration of the reopening of the newly renovated Paris Opera, Palais Garnier, in March 1996, presented at the Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra (March 13 to June 9) the exhibition Stanley Roseman - Dessins sur la Danse à l'Opéra de Paris (Drawings on the Dance at the Paris Opéra). The Roseman exhibition was sponsored by Louis Vuitton.
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France wrote that Roseman's work on the dance ''gives an answer to the challenge of expressing movement in a single pictorial image.'' Praising the artist for his ''magnificent drawings,'' the Bibliothèque Nationale de France concluded, ''Stanley Roseman's drawings show the many facets of his great talents as a draughtsman.''
Synopsis
''Dressed in black to blend into the shadows, Stanley Roseman stands in the wings of the Paris Opéra, capturing the grace and virtuosity of France's top ballet dancers with a few masterful strokes of a pencil.'' (The Associated Press, Paris)''
Created at a unique time in the history of the Paris Opéra, the drawings span the years 1990 to 1996 - through the five seasons the illustrious Paris Opéra, Palais Garnier, was dedicated exclusively to the dance and the first years the Paris Opéra Ballet performed at the new Opéra Bastille to the gala reopening of the Palais Garnier.
Stanley Roseman and the Dance - Drawings from the Paris Opéra is hardcover, 13 x 10 in., 253 pages, and printed in duotone on 200 gm satin paper. This fine art book presents 125 magnificent drawings of the celebrated dancers of the Paris Opéra Ballet and the international dance companies that appeared at the Paris Opéra, including among others, the Bolshoi Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Tokyo Ballet, Netherlands Dance Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Twyla Tharp and Dancers, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Martha Graham Dance Company.
In his absorbing introduction to the book Roseman speaks about his working methods, his views on art, and his passion for drawing. The Introduction includes two full-page reproductions of Roseman's drawings from the mid-seventies in New York City: Rudolf Nureyev, Martha Graham Dance Company 50th Anniversary, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, American Ballet Theatre, in the collections of, respectively, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Albertina, Vienna.
The book includes Roseman's drawings in the collections of, among others, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille; Musée d'Art Moderne - Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins, Strasbourg; Musée Ingres, Montauban; Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Albertina, Vienna; and the British Museum, London.
On the back of the book jacket are words of praise for Roseman's drawings from the star dancers of the Paris Opéra.