Publisher's Synopsis
The Museum of Fine Arts, Basel, is internationally renowned not only for its Old Masters but for its extraordinarily strong collections of 19th- and 20th-century painting. This book traces the history of these collections and the building which has housed them since the 17th century. Among the museum's many treasures, reproduced here in 250 full-colour plates, are works by Braque, Cezanne, Chagall, Cranach, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Hodler, Klee, Leger, Matisse, Picasso, Newman and Johns. These masterpieces offer a comprehensive survey of European painting from the mid-17th century through the finest works of the post-World War II era.
