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A 'who's-who' guide to Pierre-Auguste Renoir's iconic Luncheon of the Boating Party.
Captures the art of still life painting with reproductions of masterworks by such Impressionist artists as Van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Gaughin, Monet, and Manet.
The Phillips Collection, in Washington, D.C., was the first museum of modern art in the United States and today stands as a legacy to its founder and creator, Duncan Phillips.
The Impressionists showed us a new way to look at the world with their graceful and fleeting visions of city streets and the countryside. But one aspect of their work has gone largely overlooked--the still-life painting. Here are some of the most memorable masterpieces in this genre, from the most beloved artists of the movement including Caillebotte, Cezanne, Degas, Fantin-Latour, Gauguin, Mamet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, and van Gogh. These works depicting flowers, fruit, and table settings provide glimpses into the quaint and beautiful private spaces of Paris in the late nineteenth century. They evoke the comforts of a well-appointed home during the era when a new modern lifestyle and a new modern style of painting were emerging. This charming book was produced in conjunction with The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., which organized the landmark traveling exhibition "Impressionist Still Life.
Offers a unique insight into the creation of one of the world's greatest private collections of modern art.
Captures the art of still life painting with reproductions of masterworks by such Impressionist artists as Van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Gaughin, Monet, and Manet.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Van Gogh Repetitions, organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., and the Cleveland Museum of Art."
Impressionsts in Winter: Effets de Neige presents the first thorough investigation of the subject of Impressionist winter landscape. The subject of winter - clearly the most inhospitable season for plein-air painting - provides some of the most exceptional and most spellbindingly beautiful paintings in Impressionism. No exhibition and no publications in the literature on Impressionism have been devoted to this theme before. While such a thematic approach might seem at first blush a superficial one, the subject of this exhibition goes to the heart of one of the central issues of Impressionism, a dedication to painting specific effects of weather and light that is unprecedented in the history ...
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