The period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups: the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. It was also a time of rapid social, economic, and political change, encompassing a revolution in communication systems and technology, and an unprecedented growth in the ...
An investigation of the impressions, or painted sketches, that were actually done on the spot in France between 1860 and 1890. The book also surveys the various practices of individual artists in the making, signing, exhibiting and selling of impressions.
Paul Gauguin was introduced into the Impressionist circle by Camille Pissarro and contributed major works to five of the eight Impressionist exhibitions between 1879 and 1886. During these years he transformed himself from a banker-stockbroker to a professional artist and from a family man into a solitary searcher for artistic, moral, and ...
Camille Pissarro is perhaps best known for the landscape paintings of his early career, yet in the final decade of his life (1893-1903) he began to depict urban scenes and his paintings from this period, of Paris, Rouen and the busy ports of Dieppe and Le Havre formed an important component of his artistic output. At this time Pissarro, like Monet ...
In this magisterial book, Henri Dorra synthesizes more than fifty years of study to present a comprehensive examination of Paul Gauguin's symbolism. Drawing on his profound grasp of the artistic and social contexts in which Gauguin worked, Dorra provides new, complex insights into and interpretations of Gauguin's multilayered symbolism. "The ...
This is the first critical catalogue of the collection of nineteenth-century paintings and drawings in the Norton Simon Museum of Art. World-renowned for its strength in works by the French impressionists and post-impressionists - Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Cezanne and Van Gogh - the Museum also houses outstanding paintings by the Realist Gustave ...
Robert Lehman was a member of the first generation of American collectors to embrace what we call modern art. This lavishly illustrated volume catalogues 207 nineteenth- and twentieth-century European drawings that are now part of the "Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art". More than three-quarters of these drawings are ...
"Manet to Matisse" documents one of the most important collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces still in private hands in the United States. Characterized by works of rich colour and scintillating brushwork, it represents a fascinating overview of the richness of avant-garde French painting from the mid-nineteenth to the ...
Edgar Degas was one of the first artists collected by the industrialist and art collector Norton Simon (1907-1993), as well as one of the last. In the short span of less than thirty years, Simon assembled one of the world's most impressive private art collections, which included more than 100 examples by Degas. In late 1955, a few months after ...
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