Millet to Matisse: Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century French Painting from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow - Softcover

Hamilton, Vivien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0902752650 ISBN 13: 9780902752658

Publisher: Yale University Press / Glasgow Museums, 2002

Synopsis

The City of Glasgow possesses an internationally renowned collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. This magnificent book, the catalogue for a major exhibition, features sixty-four of the finest paintings in this collection, including important works by Rousseau, Corot, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Derain, Matisse, and Rouault.

The lavishly illustrated book provides a short essay on each work as well as full catalogue details. There are also four introductory essays by prominent scholars that set the paintings in context. Irene Maver examines the social, political, and economic environment of Glasgow from its beginnings until the First World War; Frances Fowle charts the taste for French art in the west of Scotland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; Hugh Stevenson explores the early history of the city’s collection and its assimilation of contemporary French paintings; and Belinda Thomson discusses how Glasgow’s collection relates to the wider historical context of French painting of the period.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Published in association with Glasgow Museums

About the Author:

Vivien Hamilton is Curator of European Art, Glasgow Museums, and the curator of the exhibition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press / Glasgow Museums
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0902752650
• ISBN 13: 9780902752658
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 215