French Impressionism, 1860-1920

It was the Impressionists approach that was so avant-garde, so revolutionary. Landscapes, cityscapes and scenes of everyday life were atmospherically painted, brightly and in luminous colours, in distinctively economical brushwork. This volume presents Monet, Renoir, Manet, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat and Signac, but also examines painters who are now less familiar. Among them are the long undervalued Caillebotte (17 of whose paintings are included) Bazille, Bracquemond, Cross, Forain, Gonzales, Guillaumin, Lebourg, Lepine, Luce, Morisor, L. Pissarro, Raffaelli, Rouart and Vignon.