Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cezanne (The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media)

by Caroline Campbell (Author), Christopher Riopelle (Author), Rosalind McKever (Author), Caroline Campbell (Author), Anne Robbins (Author), Christopher Riopelle (Author), Sarah Herring (Author)

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  2018

  $10.53

  Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the Courtauld Gallery are brought together at the National Gallery with paintings from both collections by Edgar Degas, Paul C zanne, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
  
  The authors discuss iconic paintings such as Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Berg re and C zanne's Card Players, and explore the fascinating story of the formation of the Courtauld collection. For its founder, the industrialist Samuel Courtauld, it was a deeply felt and personal lifelong ambition that these great pictures should be seen and enjoyed by the widest possible public; and his creation of a 50,000 purchase fund for the Tate and the National Gallery helped to lay the foundations of Britain's national collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.