THE PRIVATE LIVES OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS

Roe, Sue

ISBN 10: 0701175052 / ISBN 13: 9780701175054

Published by Chatto & Windus, 2006

About this Item

1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. An intimate, colourful, superbly researched account that takes us into their homes as well as their studios and describes their love affairs and arguments, heartaches and dreams as well as their canvases and theories. Grey boards, silver title to spine. Colour plates. viii and 356 pages including index. Lower corners of boards lightly bumped. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Top edge of text block has some minor foxing. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly scuffed. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE PRIVATE LIVES OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0701175052
• ISBN 13: 9780701175054
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, astonishing sums are paid today for the works of these artists. Their dazzling pictures are familiar - but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? In a vivid and moving narrative, biographer Sue Roe shows the Impressionists in the studios of Paris, rural lanes of Montmartre and rowdy riverside bars as Paris underwent Baron Haussman's spectacular transformation. For over twenty years they lived and worked together as a group, struggling to rebuild their lives after the Franco-Prussian war and supporting one another through shocked public reactions to unfamiliar canvasses depicting laundresses, dancers, spring blossom and boating scenes. This intimate, colourful, superbly researched account takes us into their homes as well as their studios and describes their unconventional, volatile and precarious lives, as well as the stories behind their paintings.

About the Author

Sue Roe is a freelance writer and teacher. A former Lecturer at the University of East Anglia and current lecturer at the University of Sussex, she is the author of a novel, Estella, Her Expectation, a collection of poems, The Spitfire Factory, and Writing and Gender: Virginia Woolf's Writing Practice. She is also co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf, and her most recent book is the widely praised Gwen John: A Life. She lives in Brighton.