This splendid volume featuring fifty-nine works from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned European collection celebrates France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. ranging widely in scale, subject matter, and style, these paintings and sculptures were produced by the era's leading artists, both French-born and others who studied and worked in France.
The forty-seven artists represented include Pierre Bonnard, Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, André Derain, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Augustus John, Henri Matisse, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Gabriele Münter, Odilon Redon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, and Édouard Vuillard.
Published to accompany a major traveling exhibition of the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, this elegantly designed book presents a superb selection of French modern works from the Brooklyn Museum’s outstanding European collection.
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