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Paintings that made history as they traveled the world on a single exhibition tour: more than a hundred masterpieces of modern French painting from one of the world's legendary great repositories of art (the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania) are published here for the first time in trade paperback.
These paintings were acquired by the intrepid and original collector Dr. It is the crowning glory of the extraordinary collection assembled by Albert C. Barnes in the early twentieth century. Now, after six years of limited access to visitors and a ban on color reproduction, the Barnes Foundation welcomes a wider audience both in-house and with the publication of this magnificent volume containing some of the most anticipated reproductions in art book history.
Manet, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rousseau, Soutine, La Fresnaye, Modigliani, Picasso, Braque and Matisse - the list of artists gives only a hint of the glories this book contains. Here are the major landmarks of modern art, including twenty-four Renoirs spanning his entire career. . . including thirty monumental Cézannes, bather groups, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. . . Matisse's important Bonheur de vivre, Three Sisters Triptych, and the world-famous Dance mural (and eighteen other paintings and oil works). . . The best of Van Gogh's six paintings by Joseph-Etienne Roulin. . . Seurat's famous Models. . . Douanier Rousseau's strange, disturbing unpleasant surprise. . . Tender portrait of young M. Loulou by Gauguin. . . A magnificent cluster of seven early Picassos. And that's just one example of the exciting visual treat on offer in these pages.
Identifying and relating pictures. As a collector and educator, Dr. Barnes's achievements have been provided commentary and essays by a dozen notable American and French art historians and curators. Together they provide the historical and aesthetic setting for these shining jewels of modern art.
To all for whom the paintings in the Barnes Foundation are legendary—unattainable—and to every devotee of great art and beautiful books, this volume will be a joy and a treasure.
