French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950

• This splendid volume, featuring fifty-nine works from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned European collection, pays tribute to France as the artistic centre of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
• The Brooklyn Museum pioneered the collection and exhibition of French modernism decades before its landmark 1921 exhibition, Paintings by Modern French Masters: The Post-Impressionists and Their Predecessors, which praised the then "radical tradition of French painting".
• Among the 47 artists represented are Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, André Derain, Augustus John, Henri Matisse, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Odilon Redon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin and Édouard Vuillard. Organised into four sections, the works in this book exemplify the successive avant-garde movements that defined modern art in the 19th and 20th centuries, tracing a shift from naturalism to the rise of abstraction. The themes "Landscape", "Still Life", "Portraits and Figures" and "The Nude" reveal illuminating comparisons and contrasts across time and media.
• No. of pages: 144.
• Language: English.

Publisher: Scala.