Colin B. Bailey

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mark Lawrence Rosenthal

Mark Rosenthal

Joseph J. Rishel

The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. A revised and updated edition of the 1989 publication "Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," this beautiful volume presents 55 masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating text and a wealth of comparative illustrations.

The Annenberg Collection

Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-impressionism

Rizzoli

Colin Bailey

Carrie A. Hamilton

Philippe Le Leyzour

Mythological Painting from Watteau to David

The Loves of the Gods

John Collins

Peter Vergo

National Gallery of Canada

Gustav Klimt

"Klimt's artistic vision pushed the boundaries of art at the turn of the last century. His unparalleled ability to merge the decorative arts with painting led him to create brilliant and glittering works studded with jewel-like motifs; and his richly patterned landscapes and portrayals of embracing figures and elegant women are among the most spellbinding images in the history of art" "Gathered here are essays by eminent scholars Colin B. Bailey, Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Emily Braun, Jane Kallir, and Peter Vergo that explore the extent and context of the artist's oeuvre. The full-color plates are illuminated by individual commentaries and accompanied by black-and-white comparative illustrations. In addition, an illustrated chronology traces Klimt's life and the milieu in which he worked." "With nearly two hundred color plates of Klimt's most popular images, as well as rarely published drawings and period photographs, this lavish book, which accompanies a major exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, pays tribute to the unique style of this artist, one of the most important and revolutionary figures of the late nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Gustav Klimt, Modernism in the Making

During the final decades of the ancient regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David and others that together comprised 'l'Ecole Francoise' - the French School. In this book, an art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art. Colin B. Bailey explains why a taste for modern art emerged at this time and how it was encouraged and fostered. Examining the relationship between artist and patron, he discusses the degree of influence these enlightened patrons and collectors expected to exercise when new works were being commissioned. Bailey shows that collectors of eighteenth-century French painting seem not to have made rigid distinctions between the various genres or styles of the Academy's practitioners. Instead, history paintings and genre paintings - both rococo and neo-classical - were exhibited proudly on their walls as superb examples of the French School.

Collecting Modern Art in Pre-revolutionary Paris

Patriotic Taste

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Susan Alyson Stein

Asher Ethan Miller

"This is a revised and expanded edition of a book originally published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1989 under the title 'Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: the Annenberg Collection'"--T.p. verso.

Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism

Thomas Gaehtgens

Philip Conisbee

Gemäldegalerie (Berlin, Germany)

Thomas W. Gaehtgens

Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa)

Leading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.

Masterpieces of French Genre Painting

The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard

Colin B. Bailey

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