Impressionist Still Life

First edition. NEW clothbound hardcover in dust jacket in the publisher's shrink wrap. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "The art of still life painting is captured in dozens of remarkable reproductions of masterworks by seventeen great Impressionist artists, including Van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, Pissarro, Monet, and Manet, accompanied by an authoritative introduction to the still-life tradition in painting and its history." The catalogue for an exhibition held at The Phillips Collection, September 2001 - January 2002 and then at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February - June 2002 with an annotated catalogue of the paintings with provenance and exhibition history as well as biographies of the artists. Other artists represented include Caillebotte, Morisot, Sisley, Courbet, Degas, Bazille, Fantin-Latour, Gonzales, Cassatt, Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and Eva Gonzales. Essay by Eliza E. Rathbone, George M. Shackelford, Jeannene M. Przyblyski, John McCoubrey & Richard Shiff with Mary Hannah Byers, Susan Behrends Frank, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Alexandra Ames Lawrence; preface by Jay Gates and Malcolm Rogers. 240 pages; 137 color and 13 b&w illustrations; 10.25 x 11.75 inches. Bibliography, index. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted.…