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- catalog abstract "The most eagerly awaited set of reproductions in art-book history: more than one hundred masterpieces of modern French painting from one of the world's fabled repositories of great art - the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania - are here published in full color for the first time. These paintings are the crown jewels of the extraordinary collection assembled in the early twentieth century by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the bold and original collector who established the Foundation in 1922 as a school for the study of art and philosophy. Now, after six decades of limited access to visitors and a ban on color reproduction, the Barnes Foundation welcomes a wider audience through the publication of this magnificent volume. Manet, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rousseau, Soutine, La Fresnaye, Modigliani, Picasso, Braque, and Matisse - the list of artists gives only a hint of the splendors this book contains. Here are major landmarks of modern art that many know of but few have seen, including twenty-four Renoirs encompassing the entire span of his career ... thirty monumental Cezannes, including bather groups, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits ... Matisse's pivotal Bonheur de vivre, Three Sisters Triptych, and world-famous Dance mural (and eighteen other paintings and oil studies) ... the finest of van Gogh's six paintings of Joseph-Etienne Roulin ... Seurat's celebrated Models ... the Douanier Rousseau's strange, unsettling Unpleasant Surprise ... the tender portrait of young M. Loulou by Gauguin ... a spectacular cluster of seven early Picassos. And this is only a sampling of the exhilarating visual banquet offered in these pages. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation is the companion volume to an unprecedented exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. To describe the paintings and relate the achievements of Dr. Barnes as a collector and an educator, commentaries and essays have been provided by a dozen notable American and French art historians and curators: Francoise Cachin, Anne Distel, and Anne Roquebert of the Musee d'Orsay; Jack Flam, Distinguished Professor of Art History. Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Michel Hoog of the Musee de l'Orangerie; Charles S. Moffett of the Phillips Collection; Marla Prather and Jeffrey S. Weiss of the National Gallery of Art; Joseph J. Rishel and Christopher Riopelle of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Helene Seckel of the Musee Picasso (Paris); and Richard J. Wattenmaker of the Archives of American Art. For everyone to whom the paintings in the Barnes Foundation have been a legend - unattainable - and for every devotee of great art and beautiful books, this volume will be a joy and a treasure.".
- catalog contributor b4514056.
- catalog contributor b4514057.
- catalog contributor b4514058.
- catalog contributor b4514059.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Barnes as a collector and an educator, commentaries and essays have been provided by a dozen notable American and French art historians and curators: Francoise Cachin, Anne Distel, and Anne Roquebert of the Musee d'Orsay; Jack Flam, Distinguished Professor of Art History. Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Michel Hoog of the Musee de l'Orangerie; Charles S. Moffett of the Phillips Collection; Marla Prather and Jeffrey S. Weiss of the National Gallery of Art; Joseph J. Rishel and Christopher Riopelle of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Helene Seckel of the Musee Picasso (Paris); and Richard J. Wattenmaker of the Archives of American Art. For everyone to whom the paintings in the Barnes Foundation have been a legend - unattainable - and for every devotee of great art and beautiful books, this volume will be a joy and a treasure.".
- catalog description "Dr. Albert C. Barnes and the Barnes Foundation / Richard J. Wattenmaker -- Dr. Barnes in Paris / Anne Distel -- Edouard Manet / Françoise Cachin -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Anne Distel, Christopher Riopelle -- Claude Monet / Charles S. Moffett -- Paul Cézanne / Joseph J. Rishel -- Paul Gauguin / Marla Prather -- Vincent van Gogh / Charles S. Moffett -- Georges Seurat / Françoise Cachin -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / Anne Roquebert -- Henri Rousseau / Michel Hoog -- Pablo Picasso / Hélène Seckel, Jeffrey S. Weiss -- Georges Braque / Jeffrey S. Weiss -- Roger de La Fresnaye / Jeffrey S. Weiss -- Chaim Soutine / Michel Hoog -- Amedeo Modigliani / Jeffrey S. Weiss -- Henri Matisse / Jack Flam.".
- catalog description "Here are major landmarks of modern art that many know of but few have seen, including twenty-four Renoirs encompassing the entire span of his career ... thirty monumental Cezannes, including bather groups, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits ... Matisse's pivotal Bonheur de vivre, Three Sisters Triptych, and world-famous Dance mural (and eighteen other paintings and oil studies) ... the finest of van Gogh's six paintings of Joseph-Etienne Roulin ... Seurat's celebrated Models ... the Douanier Rousseau's strange, unsettling Unpleasant Surprise ... the tender portrait of young M. Loulou by Gauguin ... a spectacular cluster of seven early Picassos. And this is only a sampling of the exhilarating visual banquet offered in these pages. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation is the companion volume to an unprecedented exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. To describe the paintings and relate the achievements of Dr. ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-313) and index.".
- catalog description "The most eagerly awaited set of reproductions in art-book history: more than one hundred masterpieces of modern French painting from one of the world's fabled repositories of great art - the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania - are here published in full color for the first time. These paintings are the crown jewels of the extraordinary collection assembled in the early twentieth century by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the bold and original collector who established the Foundation in 1922 as a school for the study of art and philosophy. Now, after six decades of limited access to visitors and a ban on color reproduction, the Barnes Foundation welcomes a wider audience through the publication of this magnificent volume. Manet, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rousseau, Soutine, La Fresnaye, Modigliani, Picasso, Braque, and Matisse - the list of artists gives only a hint of the splendors this book contains. ".
- catalog extent "xvii, 318 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0679409637".
- catalog identifier "0679744762 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Alfred A. Knopf : In association with Lincoln University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "Pennsylvania Merion".
- catalog subject "759.4/09/03407474812 20".
- catalog subject "Barnes Foundation Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Barnes Foundation Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Impressionism (Art) France Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Impressionism (Art) France Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Art) France Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Art) France Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "ND547.5.I4 G69 1993".
- catalog subject "Painting Pennsylvania Merion Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Painting Private collections Pennsylvania Merion Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Painting Private collections Pennsylvania Merion Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Painting, French 19th century Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Painting, French 20th century Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Painting, French Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Painting, Modern 19th century France Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Painting, Modern 20th century France Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Post-impressionism (Art) France Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Post-impressionism (Art) France Exhibitions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Dr. Albert C. Barnes and the Barnes Foundation / Richard J. Wattenmaker -- Dr. Barnes in Paris / Anne Distel -- Edouard Manet / Françoise Cachin -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Anne Distel, Christopher Riopelle -- Claude Monet / Charles S. Moffett -- Paul Cézanne / Joseph J. Rishel -- Paul Gauguin / Marla Prather -- Vincent van Gogh / Charles S. Moffett -- Georges Seurat / Françoise Cachin -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / Anne Roquebert -- Henri Rousseau / Michel Hoog -- Pablo Picasso / Hélène Seckel, Jeffrey S. Weiss -- Georges Braque / Jeffrey S. Weiss -- Roger de La Fresnaye / Jeffrey S. Weiss -- Chaim Soutine / Michel Hoog -- Amedeo Modigliani / Jeffrey S. Weiss -- Henri Matisse / Jack Flam.".
- catalog title "Great French paintings from the Barnes Foundation : Impressionist, Post-impressionist, and early Modern / [authors, Richard J. Wattenmaker, Anne Distel ; catalogue entries, Françoise Cachin ... et al.].".
- catalog type "Catalogs. fast".
- catalog type "text".