Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism

The Annenberg Collection

Bailey Colin B., Rishel Joseph J., Rosenthal Mark

The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolours, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avantgarde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. A revised and updated edition of the 1989 publication "Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection", this beautiful volume presents 55 masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating text and a wealth of comparative illustrations.

About the Author

Colin B. Bailey is chief curator at the Frick Collection, New York.

Joseph J. Rishel is the Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900, and senior curator of the John G. Johnson Collection and the Rodin Museum at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Mark Rosenthal is curator of contemporary art at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach.

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