Faces of Impressionism explores the development of the portrait in French painting and sculpture between 1860 and 1910 as showcased in one of the world’s greatest collections of Impressionist art―the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Splendidly illustrated, this book assesses the portrait collection through the expert eyes of George T. M. Shackelford and Guy Cogeval, as well as from the perspective of a new generation of distinguished scholars, Isolde Pludermacher and Xavier Rey. Featuring some of the best-loved portraits in the history of art―Cézanne’s Woman with a Coffee Pot, Degas’s L’Absinthe―this handsome volume includes masters such as Denis, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Seurat, Signac, and Toulouse-Lautrec, and a detailed discussion on Manet and his followers as depicted in Fantin-Latour’s renowned group portrait A Studio in the Batignolles.

Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musée d'Orsay (Kimbell Art Museum)

Arts & Photography

Rey, Xavier

Shackelford, George T.M.

History & Criticism

Kimbell Art Museum

The first comprehensive examination of the painter’s formative years, tracing the evolution of Monet’s early style and personal ambitions that drove the rest of his career This elegant volume is the first to be devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet (1840–1926). Bringing together the greatest paintings from his early career—including his first Salon-exhibited work, the Kimbell Art Museum’s La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide; Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) and The Magpie from the Musée d’Orsay; and The Green Waveand La Grenouillère from the Metropolitan Museum of Art—it features essays by distinguished scholars, focusing on the evolution of Monet’s own distinctive mode of painting. Through the 1860s, the young painter absorbed and transformed a variety of influences, from the lessons of the Barbizon school and his mentor Boudin to the challenges posed by his friends Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley. Artistic innovation and personal ambition shaped the work of the celebrated impressionist painter from the very start of his long and illustrious career.

Monet: The Early Years

A detailed overview of the innovation and ambition that drove one of the best-known Impressionist painters at the end of his career In the later years of his life, Claude Monet (1840–1926) stayed close to home, turning to his extraordinary garden at Giverny for inspiration. The garden became a laboratory for the artist’s concentrated study of natural phenomena—and for a revolutionary shift in the appearance and execution of his paintings. This beautiful publication examines the last phase of Monet’s career, beginning in 1913, bringing together approximately 60 of his greatest works from this period. More specifically, Monet: The Late Years focuses on the series that Monet invented and reinvented at Giverny, reevaluating many large-scale works that have long been considered preparatory studies, reexamining their relationship to and status as finished works. Essays by a roster of distinguished scholars address topics such as Monet’s plans for displaying his late paintings, the mechanics of his painting technique, and the critical and market reception of these works. Through this visually stunning reassessment, Monet’s late works, still astonishing a century later, recast the titan of Impressionism as a radical modern painter.

Monet: The Late Years

Bonnard's Worlds

Vincent van Gogh: The Painter and the Portrait, produced in conjunction with the international loan exhibition Van Gogh: Face to Face, explores the artist's changing conception of the portrait from his first experiments with drawing character studies around 1880 to his astonishing explorations of expressive color at the end of the decade. Illustrated with more than 50 color plates, the text incorporates selections from van Gogh's extraordinary letters, bringing the artist's singular vision of portraiture to life. This collection features portraits of the artist, his friends, neighbors, family, and other figures from his daily life offering the reader an opportunity to see inside van Gogh's world, so passionately evoked in his canvases.

Vincent Van Gogh: The Painter and the Portraits

Individual Artists

Universe

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. As is often the case, however, some of the most wonderful things to see are also the least expected: rare and unusual monotypes by Degas, three states of a softground etching by Pissarro, and numerous works by some of their lesser-known but equally important contemporaries. Unlike previous books on the topic, Impressions of Light presents a unique and stunningly complete group of work that introduces a new level of complexity into the discussion of French landscapes. Rather than considering the landscape as a steady, linear development and the product of a single medium, it takes into account the many crosscurrents and intersecting developments in French art, from the Barbizon school through the post-Impressionist period. In addition, it studies the landscape in a variety of media--painting, prints, and photography--exploring both the individual artists' perceptions and the ways in which they influenced each other. With over 80 paintings and 70 works on paper from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's collections, and published to accompany a major exhibition, Impressions of Light encompasses more than 100 years and 56 artists working in a dozen different media. It holds the broadest possible view, yet never loses sight of the extraordinary intricacy that makes the landscape so enduringly appealing.

Impressions Of Light: The French Landscape From Corot To Monet

Reed, Sue Welsh

Degas, Edgar

Cézanne, Paul

Wissman, Fronia E.

REDON, Odilon

Monet, Claude

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

Pissarro, Camille

Haas, Karen

Wissman, Fronia

Haas, Karen E.

Havinga, Anne

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille

Daubigny, Charles-Francois

Huet, Paul

MILLET, Jean-François

GAUGUIN, Paul.

VAN GOGH, Vincent

MFA Publications

Book by Wissman, Fronia E.; Shackelford, George T. M.; Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Impressions of Light

Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

pp. 212, b/w and color illustrations, Exhibition Catalogue.

Monet, Renoir, and the impressionist landscape

National Gallery of Canada

Since 1975, the Houston-based Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation has formed a distinguished collection of European Old Master paintings from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century for exhibition in museums, universities, and art centers throughout Texas. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies a major exhibition of the foundation's finest paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Prominent experts introduce these masterpieces of the Blaffer Collection in essays on still life, landscape, genre painting, portraiture, and history painting.

Masterpieces of Baroque Painting from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Museum of Fine Arts. Houston

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Since 1975, the Houston-based Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation has formed a distinguished collection of European Old Master paintings from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century for exhibition in museums, universities, and art centers throughout Texas. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies a major exhibition of the foundation's finest paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Prominent experts introduce these masterpieces of the Blaffer Collection in essays on still life, landscape, genre painting, portraiture, and history painting.

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