Product Description: Stretching from Paris to Le Havre, the Seine river and the valley flanking it afford some of France's loveliest views. The ports, holiday homes and artists' houses, the boats, the washerwomen, the windmills, the open-air cafes, the picnics and the bathing supplied French painting with some of its most iconic images, particularly during the Impressionist era, when painting stepped out of the studio and into the world...read more

Product Description: Stretching from Paris to Le Havre, the Seine river and the valley flanking it afford some of France's loveliest views. The ports, holiday homes and artists' houses, the boats, the washerwomen, the windmills, the open-air cafes, the picnics and the bathing supplied French painting with some of its most iconic images, particularly during the Impressionist era, when painting stepped out of the studio and into the world...read more

Product Description: This dazzling collection of one hundred works by the masters of nineteenth-century French painting tells the story of the Impressionist movement that changed the way artists view the world and the way the world views art. This book tells the story of the beloved Impressionist movement, focusing on the tumultuous period of the 1860s and 1870s and the emergence of the New Painting out of the Paris Salon...read more

Product Description: This dazzling collection of one hundred works by the masters of nineteenth-century French painting tells the story of the Impressionist movement that changed the way artists view the world and the way the world views art. This book tells the story of the beloved Impressionist movement, focusing on the tumultuous period of the 1860s and 1870s and the emergence of the New Painting out of the Paris Salon...read more

Product Description: Distinguished by his brilliantly energetic brushwork, Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) was one of the most prominent Italian artists of the late 19th century. Still, he has remained little known beyond his native country. This beautiful book is the first published on Boldini in English in a generation and accompanies the first major exhibition of his works outside of Europe...read more

The name Claude Monet is synonymous with French Impressionism, yet, particularly in his later years, Monet's painting aqcuired a profoundly spiritual quality. The basis of Monet's art is light in all its manifestations, as he captured fleeting impressions in a spontaneous style of open-air painting that was rigorously opposed to academic tradition. This monograph, initially published to accompany an exhibition in Vienna, includes paintings from the artist's entire career. These range from early works painted in the forest at Fontainebleau, through the landscapes of his mature period, to his almost abstract later work. Depictions of the Thames and of Rouen Cathedral are included, as well as examples of the poppy field, haystack, and waterlily series. Most of the paintings shown are from Paris collections, and these are supplemented by many rarely seen works from European, American and Japanese collections. The book contains an introductory essay and commentaries on all the plates, which are arranged in thematic groups. Illustrated biographical notes on the artist and extracts from his letters are also included.

Product Description: The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art...read more

Product Description: Showcasing one of the nation's finest collecitons of American art, this remarkable two-volume set features 267 exceptional paintings reproduced in full color and illuminated with never-before-published research findings. Works span American history from the colonial period through the close of World War II and are by many of the nation's best-known artists, including Mary Cassatt, Thomas Cole, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe...read more

Chronicles Pissaro's transformation from an unremarkable landscape painter to one of the leaders of the Impressionist movement, examining the creations of key works between 1964 and 1974 while analyzing his experimental techniques and legacy for subsequent generations of painters. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston possesses one of the world's finest collections of 19th-century French and American art, with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, and Sargent. This colorful book, the first published on the collection, illustrates many of its highlights...read more

Product Description: Monet was the most remarkable of all the Impressionist landscape painters. And perhaps at no point in his career was his work more varied than in the years between 1878 and 1883. During this time he produced some 300 paintings, many of them are amongst his finest works...read more

Product Description: The City of Glasgow possesses an internationally-renowned collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. This volume, the catalogue for a major exhibition, features 64 of the finest paintings in this collection, including important works by Rousseau, Corot, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Derain, Matisse and Rouault...read more

Product Description: This large, lavish journey through the art of the 19th-century French landscape offers a host of masterful works, among them Corot's Forest of Fontainbleau, Millet's End of the Hamlet of Gruchy, Renoir's Rocky Crags at L'Estaque, and Monet's Rue de la Bavolle, Honfleur...read more

Product Description: The popularity of still-life painting continues to soar-as evidenced by the success of Abrams' recent book on Manet's still lifes, as well as by several major museum exhibitions. With lush colorplates reproducing more than 65 masterworks by 17 Impressionist artists, this exceptional collection of still lifes is a brilliant display of the genre in all its glory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Gloria Victis! Victors and Vanquished in French Art 1848-1910This book focuses on the conflict between the old and the new in French painting and sculpture in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Modern art history has hailed the avant-garde as winners and labelled the academic artists losers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "This book accompanies the first major exhibition to focus exclusively on the portraits made by the Impressionist masters and their immediate predecessors. Breaking free from portraiture's conventions, the Impressionists expanded the notion of a portrait to reflect not only an individual's appearance but also his or her everyday surroundings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (1828-1909), a physician and amateur painter, was among the first to appreciate the work of Van Gogh, Cezanne, Pissarro and other Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. He befriended many artists, and bought and received as gifts a large number of artworks, including masterpieces such as Van Gogh's "Church at Auvers" and Cezanne's "A Modern Olympia". Beginning in 1949, Gachet's children made a series of major donations to the French state from their father's extraordinary collection. Published to accompany an international exhibition, this volume presents the entire Gachet donation of paintings, drawings, prints, and even memorabilia, and also provides information on the works and the copies of them. An essay describes the eventful lives of the Gachets and their close relationships with Cezanne, Van Gogh and others. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Perhaps the most beloved of the Impressionist painters, Auguste Renoir conveyed his joyous appreciation of everyday life through his channing still lifes, his luminous landscapes, and, in particular, his masterful and sensous figure paintings...read more

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Product Description: Monet at Veteuil takes us into a crucial period of the painter's life. Painted in the midst of intense personal trials, Monet's Debacles, showing the cataclysmic breakup of the frozen Seine in the winter of 1880, marked a new breakthrough in his conception of landscape painting in series and paved the way for the water-lily and grain-stack series of his later years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Of all the Impressionists, only Pierre-Auguste Renoir earned distinction as a professional portrait painter. For more than fifty years Renoir explored the genre of portraiture, experimenting and pressing forward in his determination to become -- as he explained to Monet in January 1884 - "a painter of figures...read more

Collects works by French impressionist painters to commemorate the 1998/1999 exhibition (view table of contents)

Collects works by French impressionist painters to commemorate the 1998/1999 exhibition