2006, ISBN: 0300121016

[EAN: 9780300121018], [PU: Yale University Press November 2006], Jacket, This is the first critical catalogue of the collection of nineteenth-century paintings and drawings in the Norton … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780300121018], [PU: Yale University Press November 2006], Jacket, This is the first critical catalogue of the collection of nineteenth-century paintings and drawings in the Norton Simon Museum of Art. World-renowned for its strength in works by the French impressionists and post-impressionists--Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Cezanne and Van Gogh--the Museum also houses outstanding paintings by the Realist Gustave Courbet, and the Barbizon painter Camille Corot among others. Each of the 138 artworks featured in the book is illustrated in color and accompanied by a full catalogue entry, comprising critical essay exhibition and ownership history, bibliography and conservation notes. Color reproductions of comparative works from other collections--public and private--are also included.Stephen Eisenman and Richard Brettell have conjoined their unique perspectives on nineteenth-century art to summarize existing scholarship of the period, and most of all, shed new light on a collection of important but little-studied masterpieces. They have also collaborated in writing an introduction to the catalogue that for the first time places the collector Norton Simon in the historical, intellectual, and economic context of his time. Binding slightly loose; minor insect damage on spine and edges of covers. Interior pages in very good condition. Wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector., Books<

ISBN: 9780300121018

This is the first critical catalogue of the collection of nineteenth-century paintings and drawings in the Norton Simon Museum of Art. World-renowned for its strength in works by the Fren… Mehr…

This is the first critical catalogue of the collection of nineteenth-century paintings and drawings in the Norton Simon Museum of Art. World-renowned for its strength in works by the French impressionists and post-impressionists--Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Cezanne and Van Gogh--the Museum also houses outstanding paintings by the Realist Gustave Courbet, and the Barbizon painter Camille Corot among others. Each of the 138 artworks featured in the book is illustrated in color and accompanied by a full catalogue entry, comprising critical essay exhibition and ownership history, bibliography and conservation notes. Color reproductions of comparative works from other collections--public and private--are also included.Stephen Eisenman and Richard Brettell have conjoined their unique perspectives on nineteenth-century art to summarize existing scholarship of the period, and most of all, shed new light on a collection of important but little-studied masterpieces. They have also collaborated in writing an introduction to the catalogue that for the first time places the collector Norton Simon in the historical, intellectual, and economic context of his time. Media > Book, [PU: Yale University Press]<

2006, ISBN: 9780300121018

New Haven and London: 2006. 578pp, with 226 colour and 240 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 30x26cms. ISBN: 0300121016. First catalogue of 19th century paintings and drawings in the muse… Mehr…

New Haven and London: 2006. 578pp, with 226 colour and 240 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 30x26cms. ISBN: 0300121016. First catalogue of 19th century paintings and drawings in the museum at Pasadena, featuring 138 works by French artists of the Barbizon, Impressionist and Post Impressionist movements, including Corot, Courbet, Monet, Gauguin, Cézanne and Van Gogh. Introduction on Norton Simon as a collector in the historical, intellectual and economic context of his time. Text in English., New Haven and London: 2006., 0<