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Degas Landscapes
Richard Kendall
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Degas is renowned for his masterful studies of the human body - powerfully rendered paintings of dancers, jockeys, washerwomen, and bathers. It is less well known, however, that he also produced challenging and varied landscapes at almost every...
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Sisley in England and Wales
Christopher Riopelle, Ann Sumner
National Gallery London
National Gallery London
Although born and raised in France, Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was in fact from an English family and retained links with his ancestral homeland all his life. In 1874––after his participation in the first Impressionist...
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Claude Monet
Rizzoli
Rizzoli
Rizzoli
Based on a complete study of the Impressionist's work, his surviving letters--nearly 3,000 in all--and contemporary documentary material, this is the fullest account possible of this complex and influential artist. "A major contribution . . . it...
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Max Liebermann: From Realism to Impressionism
Skirball Cultural Center
Skirball Cultural Center
Max Liebermann (1847-1935), the leading artist in Germany from the early 1890s until the Nazi takeover in 1933, was known later in his career for his singular approach to Impressionism. Initially a realist painter, his work at times moved into the...
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Fashion in Art: The Second Empire and Impressionism
Marie Simon
Philip Wilson Publishers
Philip Wilson Publishers
Between 1850 and 1900 fashion in Paris became an art form in itself, its designers inspired to creations of ever greater elegance and exoticism by the examples of the Old Masters and the popular painters of the day. But as art inspired fashion, so...
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