Claude Monet

Richard Kendall

Biddy Strevens

This volume on the life and work of Claude Monet is quite unlike any other book on this popular artist, as for the first time his letters have been brought together with his paintings, pastels and drawings. There are letters to his fellow artists and youthful friends, long affectionate letters to family and loved ones and begging letters in times of hardship. We read of Monet's persistence in money matters, his frustrations and successes while on painting expeditions to Italy, Brittany and Norway, and his experience of solitude, illness and bereavement in later life. Monet emerges from the correspondence as a more troubled and complex individual than his sun-filled canvases might suggest. Alongside the artist's letters are more than 200 superb colour reproductions. These accompany the text and enable the reader to follow the young artist through his first encounters with the Parisian art scene, his days as a commanding presence in the Impressionist movement and the final chapter of his life when he produced some of his most ambitious and colourful work at Giverny.

Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Monet by Himself

The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery (National Gallery London Publications)

Van Gogh to Picasso

Sjraar Van Heugten

Chris Stolwijk

A revelatory study of the importance of nature in Van Gogh's art throughout his life in Holland and France

Van Gogh and Nature

Paul Cézanne

CEZANNE BY HIMSELF is a major volume on the life and work of Paul Cezanne (1836-1906), a painter whose innovative ideas of representation set him apart from his contemporaries and led the way for a new school of art. This edition distinguishes itself by combining the artist's correspondence and the memoirs of his friends with a sweeping selection of reproductions of his works. One of the most influential of nineteenth-century artists, Cezanne exhibited in his work a concern with form and structure that presaged the development of Modernism. It was this aspect of his work that led a subsequent generation of art historians to dub him the first 'post-Impressionist'. Despite his artistic achievements and education, however, Cezanne was ill at ease in the cafes and salons of the Paris art world. This book is the first fully illustrated account to show the paradoxes and contradictions of Cezanne's personality through his own writings and the reminiscences of his contemporaries, and it provides fascinating evidence of his friendships and family life.

Drawings, Paintings, Writings

Cézanne by Himself

Robert Rosenblum

Features a number of Hodgkin's large paintings

Large Paintings, 1984-2002

Howard Hodgkin

Edgar Degas

Shows and discusses selected Degas drawings, pastels, prints, paintings, and sculptures of ballet dancers

Degas Dancers

Designed to accompany a major exhibit in London and Chicago and illustrated with 170 color plates and 120 black-and-white reproductions, a study of the artist's later career investigates the themes, techniques, and imagery of Degas's last decades. UP.

Beyond Impressionism

Degas

Degas's sculpture of the Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is one of the most celebrated images of our age. Although it caused immediate controversy when first exhibited in 1881, it is now recognized as the sculptural masterpiece of Impressionism. After the artist's death, the Original wax was reproduced in at least thirty plaster and bronze casts that are now scattered throughout the world and inspire delight among museum-goers and continuing debate among art historians. This beautiful book is the first full-length study of the subject and offers entirely new perspectives on a work that is widely regarded as a key precursor of twentieth-century sculpture. In three chapters, Richard Kendall analyzes the origins of this distinctive figure in Degas's ballet imagery; explores the condition of French sculpture in the 1870s and the significance of Degas's choice of materials, procedures, and exhibition strategy; and describes the critical responses to the first public display of the statuette, particularly those comparing it with dolls and the art of ancient Egypt. Douglas W. Druick then explores the fascinating association between the sculpture and views of criminality current in the artist's day, and for the first time in the history of the work, Arthur Beale examines the technical character of its variant forms using laboratory analysis and X-ray photography. The book presents sixty-five color plates of major works by Degas that encompass the genesis and legacy of the Little Dancer, as well as a wealth of comparative plates and preparatory drawings, some never before published. The book is the catalogue for an exhibition that will open at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, in February 1998 andthen travel to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Degas and the Little Dancer

Detroit Institute of Arts

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Jill Devonyar

Seeks to illuminate the themes present in the artist's works, presenting new material about his highly informed relationship with the ballet of the nineteenth century.

Degas and the Dance

Using drawings, pastels, paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs taken by Degas and his comtemporaries, as well as samples of film from the period, this visually stunning volume explores how the artist was influenced by the then-new mediums of photography and film.

Picturing Movement

Degas and the Ballet

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Douglas W. Druick

Joslyn Art Museum

Baltimore Museum of Art

Arthur Beale

This beautiful book is the first full-length study of the subject and offers entirely new perspectives on a work that is widely regarded as a key precursor of twentieth-century sculpture. In three chapters, Richard Kendall analyzes the origins of this distinctive figure in Degas's ballet imagery; explores the condition of French sculpture in the 1870s and the significance of Degas's choice of materials, procedures, and exhibition strategy; and describes the critical responses to the first public display of the statuette, particularly those comparing it with dolls and the art of ancient Egypt. Douglas W. Druick then explores the fascinating association between the sculpture and views of criminality current in the artist's day, and for the first time in the history of the work, Arthur Beale examines the technical character of its variant forms using laboratory analysis and X-ray photography. The book presents sixty-five color plates of major works by Degas that encompass the genesis and legacy of the Little Dancer, as well as a wealth of comparative plates and preparatory drawings, some never before published.

Degas and The Little Dancer

Terry Rosenberg

Linda Nutter

"Artist Terry Rosenberg is known for his fluid abstract paintings and drawings of dancers in motion. His works are known for their intrinsic ability to capture the dancer in the process of becoming the dance. This elegant publication has been produeced to celebrate his 25 year career. Featured are over 60 color reproductions, along with essays by curator Richard Kendall and Linda Nutter, Ph.D."

Figuring Motion

Catherine Lampert

“I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.”—Euan Uglow

The Complete Paintings

Euan Uglow

Van Gogh's Van Goghs

Sarah Lees

Barbara Guidi

Distinguished by his brilliantly energetic brushwork, Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) was one of the most prominent Italian artists of the late 19th century. Still, he has remained little known beyond his native country. This beautiful book is the first published on Boldini in English in a generation and accompanies the first major exhibition of his works outside of Europe. Born in Ferrara, Boldini moved to Paris in 1871, where he lived for the rest of his life. This important volume focuses on his work from 1871 to 1886, which reflects the influence of his contemporaries—Degas, Manet, Caillebotte, Meissonier, and Fortuny, among others. It features Boldini’s fanciful paintings made for the art market and depictions of the city around him—from the bustling streets and squares to cafés, theaters, and concert halls—as well as paintings of friends and models, and a selection of later portraits that established him as one of the quintessential portraitists of the Belle Époque.

Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

James A. Ganz

This book is the first to focus on Monet's pastels, drawings, and sketchbooks, offering a revolutionary new interpretation of the artist's life and work. Citing recently discovered, unpublished documents, the authors reveal an extensive group of graphic works created over the course of the artist's career.

Richard Kendall

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