IMPRESSIONIST & POST-IMPRESSIONIST DRAWINGS

An authoritative analysis of the drawings, including watercolours and pastels, of 20 leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists in one magnificent volume. Millet with his beautiful atmospheric Twilight of shepherds, Boudin's Stormy Sky, Manet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cézanne's Three Skulls, Sisley's Winter Landscapes, Eva Gonzalez, Caillebotte, Raffaelli, Signac, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. This book sets drawings by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists in the context of late 19th century France and explains why these particular works are as important as their paintings in the representation of modernity. A new approach to materials and a wholly inclusive attitude to exhibitions gave drawings a more elevated status in this period than ever before, which avant-garde artists welcomed in their preference for scenes from contemporary life. For the first time also, painting and drawing shared the same stylistic principles of spontaneity, freer handling and lack of finish. Pastels of dancers anf jockeys by Degas, watercolours by Cézanne, pen-and-ink drawings by Van Gogh and mixed media works by Toulouse-Lautrec have an autonomy of their own, which proved instrumental in the development of modern art. The distinguished art historian Christopher Lloyd examines the drawings of 20 of the leading artists and provides biographical details in a truly beautiful colour in Thames & Hudson hardback with tipped in front cover illustration, 288 pages with US desirable roughcut edges, hundreds of colour images and drawings and etchings. 22 x 25cm.
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