Impressionism and Post Impressionism - Lot with 6 books - 2007-2020

1.L’Impressionisme (255 pages in French ) et Le Post-Impressionisme (255 pages in French) Nathalia Brodskaia, 2007, Parkstone Press, 2 volume set with a slipcase, Hardback

This attractive two-volume 2007 Parkstone International set, published in French, provides a comprehensive visual and historical survey of two pivotal movements that transformed European painting at the end of the 19th century. Each volume contains approximately 255 pages, with the books presented together in an illustrated slipcase and finished in hardback with dust jackets. The set comprises approximately 510 pages in total. The bibliographic record confirms the 2007 publication, two-volume format and slipcase presentation.
The Impressionism volume examines the revolutionary work of Manet, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro and others, explaining their rejection of academic conventions and their fascination with light, atmosphere and modern life. The companion volume follows the transition towards modern art through Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and Seurat, highlighting colour, emotional expression, altered perspective and new approaches to composition.

2.Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jenifer A Thompson, Yale University Press, 2019, 216 pages in English, Hardback

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
This beautifully produced 2019 volume, by Jennifer A. Thompson with contributions from Joseph J. Rishel and Eileen Owens, presents 90 highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s outstanding Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection. The book features major works by Cézanne, Van Gogh, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Cassatt and Rodin, among others.
Particularly noteworthy are Cézanne’s Large Bathers, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Degas’s Interior, Manet’s Le Bon Bock, Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge and Renoir’s Great Bathers. The accompanying essays place the works within their artistic, social, political and art-market contexts, while discussing the innovative techniques of the period.
At 216 pages, with 169 colour and 20 black-and-white illustrations, it is both a scholarly reference and an attractive coffee-table art book. It was published in conjunction with the museum’s 2019 The Impressionist’s Eye exhibition.

3.Derniers Impressionnistes: Le temps de l’intimité, Yann Farinaux-Le Sidaner, Éditions Monelle Hayot, Deuxirme Édition, 2020, 320 pages in French, Hardback

Derniers Impressionnistes : Le temps de l’intimité, directed by art historian Yann Farinaux-Le Sidaner and published by Éditions Monelle Hayot in its second edition in 2020, is an important exhibition catalogue devoted to the intimist movement of the Belle Époque and inter-war period. The movement, centred around the Société nouvelle de peintres et de sculpteurs, represented one of the final major French artistic currents to remain deeply committed to nature, domestic scenes, psychological portraits and the poetry of everyday life.

The book explores artists including Henri Le Sidaner, Henri Martin, Eugène Carrière, Charles Cottet, Edmond Aman-Jean, Frits Thaulow, Gaston La Touche, Lucien Simon and René-Xavier Prinet, showing how their work combined Impressionist observation with Symbolist sensitivity and a more contemplative, intimate aesthetic.
With approximately 1,000 illustrations, 320 pages and substantial documentation, it provides an unusually comprehensive visual survey of this underappreciated chapter of European painting.

4.The Neo-Impressionist Portrait 1886-1904, Jane Block and Ellen Wardwell Lee, Yale University Press, 2014, 237 pages in English

Edited by Jane Block and Ellen Wardwell Lee and published by Yale University Press in 2014, The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886–1904 is the first comprehensive study devoted specifically to portraiture within the Neo-Impressionist movement. It examines how artists adapted the movement’s distinctive pointillist technique, scientific approach to colour and interest in light to the human figure.
The book features portraits by leading figures including Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Henri-Edmond Cross, Maximilien Luce, Georges Lemmen, Henry van de Velde, Vincent van Gogh and Théo van Rysselberghe. Particularly valuable is its attention to Belgian artists, whose Neo-Impressionist portraits have historically received less recognition than their French counterparts.
The catalogue contains biographies of 17 artists, essays examining the development of portraiture in France and Belgium, and a catalogue of 60 paintings, supported by more than 100 colour illustrations.

5.Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market, edited by Sylvie Patry, Yale University Press, 2015, 303 pages in English, Hardback

Edited by Sylvie Patry and published by National Gallery Company in 2015, with distribution by Yale University Press, Inventing Impressionism examines the extraordinary career of Paul Durand-Ruel (1831–1922), the pioneering art dealer whose vision was instrumental in transforming Impressionism from a controversial avant-garde movement into an internationally recognised artistic force.
Durand-Ruel discovered and championed artists including Monet, Renoir, Degas and Pissarro, purchasing their work when much of the established art world remained sceptical. The book explains his innovative approach to the art market: organising solo exhibitions, publishing criticism, providing financial support to artists and developing international markets through galleries in London, Brussels and New York.
Featuring contributions from leading scholars and members of the Durand-Ruel family, the catalogue combines paintings with archival documents, photographs and extensive historical analysis. With 304 pages and 150 colour illustrations, it is an important reference for understanding both Impressionism and the origins of the modern international art market.