This beautiful book provides a brief introduction to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early modern paintings made between 1860 and 1905a highly innovative and exciting time in the history of artthrough 38 masterpieces from the remarkable collections of the National Gallery, London. Among the featured highlights are Manets Corner of a Café-Concert, Monets Water-Lily Pond, Gallen-Kallelas Lake Keitele, Cézannes Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses), Adolph Menzels Afternoon in the Tuileries Gardens, and Picassos Child with a Dove. Manet to Picasso includes an essay by Christopher Riopelle on the formation of the collection along with concise discussions of each of the featured worksarranged chronologically by artistoffering a look at the genesis and development of modern art.
Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
