{"product_id":"great-french-paintings-from-the-barnes-foundation-impressionist-post-impressionist-and-early-modern","title":"Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGreat French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBarnes Foundation\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0679762213\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAlfred A. Knopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1995\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e338\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe pictures that made history as they traveled around the world on their only exhibition tour: more than a 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 trade paperback for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese paintings are the crowning glory 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 both on its premises and through the publication of this magnificent volume, containing the most eagerly awaited set of reproductions in art-book history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eManet, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, 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, including twenty-four Renoirs encompassing the entire span of his career . . . thirty monumental Cézannes, including bather groups, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits . . . Matisse's pivotal \u003ci\u003eBonheur de vivre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThree Sisters Triptych\u003c\/i\u003e, and world-famous \u003ci\u003eDance\u003c\/i\u003e mural (and eighteen other paintings and oil studies) . . . the finest of van Gogh's six paintings of \u003ci\u003eJoseph-Etienne Roulin\u003c\/i\u003e . . . Seurat's celebrated \u003ci\u003eModels\u003c\/i\u003e . . . The Douanier Rousseau's strange, unsettling \u003ci\u003eUnpleasant Surprise\u003c\/i\u003e . . . the tender portrait of young \u003ci\u003eM. Loulou\u003c\/i\u003e by Gauguin . . . a spectacular cluster of seven early Picassos. And this is only a sampling of the exhilarating visual banquet offered in these pages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo describe the paintings and relate the achievements of Dr. Barnes as a collector and educator, commentaries and essays have been provided by a dozen notable American and French art historians and curators. Together they provide the historical and aesthetic setting for these glowing jewels of modern art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eWith 320 illustrations, 151 in full color, and 18 pages of gatefolds.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern | Barnes Foundation | Paperback | 0679762213 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks J 1734139","offer_id":48168095482008,"sku":"1734139","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/814ecPDR00L.jpg?v=1771962846","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/great-french-paintings-from-the-barnes-foundation-impressionist-post-impressionist-and-early-modern","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}