An extended and highly readable introduction covers the background to the movement, its heroic years, its followers and an account of the masters in their later years.
Full-page colour reproductions of over 100 paintings are faced by informative and intriguing descriptions: short biographies of thirty of the artists and a bibliography make this a highly useful reference work as well as a pleasure to browse.
Artists featured are: Bazille Bonnard Boudin Cassatt Czanne Constable Corot Courbet Daubigny Degas Fantin-Latour Gauguin Jongkind Manet Millet Monet Morisot Pissarro Renoir Rousseau Sargent Seurat Sickert Signac Sisley Steer Toulouse-Lautrec Van Gogh Vuillard Whistler
Full-page colour reproductions of over 100 paintings are faced by informative and intriguing descriptions: short biographies of thirty of the artists and a bibliography make this a highly useful reference work as well as a pleasure to browse.
Artists featured are: Bazille Bonnard Boudin Cassatt Czanne Constable Corot Courbet Daubigny Degas Fantin-Latour Gauguin Jongkind Manet Millet Monet Morisot Pissarro Renoir Rousseau Sargent Seurat Sickert Signac Sisley Steer Toulouse-Lautrec Van Gogh Vuillard Whistler
Extent: 296 pp
Format: Paperback with flaps
Illustrations: 108
Publication date: 1995-09-04
Size: 30.3 x 25.1 cm
ISBN: 9780500278499
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About the Author
William Gaunt (1900–1980) was a British art historian and artist, who studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, and is well known for his books on British 19th-century art.
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