Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection

Susan Alyson Stein, Asher Ethan Miller, Colin B Bailey, Joseph J Rishel, Mark Rosenthal, Susan Alyson Stein,

ISBN 10: 0300124023 / ISBN 13: 9780300124026

Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art New York January 2010, 2010

About this Item

The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised andexpanded edition of the 1989 publication 'Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection,' thishandsome volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations.' 'This is a revised and expanded edition of a book originally published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1989 under the title 'Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: the Annenberg Collection''--T.p. verso.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York January 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300124023
• ISBN 13: 9780300124026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Back Room - Art - Museum Collections

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Synopsis

The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised and expanded edition of the 1989 publication Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, this handsome volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations.




Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About the Author

Colin B. Bailey is Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp 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 an independent curator based in New York. Susan Alyson Stein is Curator and Asher Ethan Miller is Research Associate, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.