Roe Sue - The Private Lives Of The Impressionists - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: New York Times Bestseller Anyone who has ever lost themselves in Monet's color - saturated gardens or swooned over Degas's dancers will enjoy this revealing group portrait of the artists who founded the Impressionist movement . For the armchair dilettante as well as the art - history student this is lively required reading. People The first book to offer an intimate and lively biography of the world's most popular group of artists including Manet Monet Pissarro C zanne Renoir Degas Sisley Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries today astonishing sums are paid for their paintings. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? Sue Roe's colorful lively poignant and superbly researched biography The Private Lives of the Impressionists follows an extraordinary group of artists into their Paris studios down the rural lanes of Montmartre and into the rowdy riverside bars of a city undergoing monumental change. Vivid and unforgettable it casts a brilliant revealing light on this unparalleled society of genius colleagues who lived and worked together for twenty years and transformed the art world forever with their breathtaking depictions of ordinary life.
Title: The Private Lives Of The Impressionists
Author(s): Roe Sue
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060545598
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/23/2007