The Impressionists is a unique combination of enthralling history and brilliant picture display. The paintings of the seven great aritsts - Monet, Manet, Pissaro, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir and Sisley - celebrated here are among the greatest works of art ever created but some have come to be almost taken for granted and the gripping story of their genesis half forgotten. The Impressionists brings to life again the drama of these painters' unrelelenting struggle. We are reminded of how bitterly they were criticized for asserting their right to paint the life of their own times and for insisting on the legitimacy of recording their perceptions of nature without artifice or adornment.

Alpine Fine Arts, 1994. Shelf wear to DW and boards. Scuffing to bottom of page ends.