Publisher's Synopsis
Bringing together the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections of the Courtauld Gallery and the National Gallery, this elegantly illustrated volume features masterpieces by artists including Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. In addition to discussions of iconic paintings such as Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère and Cézanne's Card Players, the authors provide lively and engaging essays that explore the fascinating story of the formation of the Courtauld collection and the goals of its founder, the industrialist Samuel Courtauld. They also explain how Courtauld's creation of a £50,000 acquisition fund for the Tate and National Galleries helped to lay the foundations of the United Kingdom's national collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art.
