Courtauld impressionists : from Manet to Cézanne / Anne Robbins ; with an essay by Caroline Campbell and contributions by Christopher Riopelle, Sarah Herring, Rosalind McKever and Julien Domercq.
"Published to accompany the exhibition "Courtauld impressionists: from Manet to Cézanne" 17 September 2018 - 20 January 2019"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Director's preface -- Samuel Courtauld : man and collector / Caroline Campbell -- Courtauld and the National Gallery : 'an assault on a big scale' / Anne Robbins -- Catalogue of works.
Summary:
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the Courtauld Gallery are brought together at the National Gallery with paintings from both collections by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The authors discuss iconic paintings, such as Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere and Cezanne's Card Players, and explore the fascinating story of the formation of the Courtauld collection. For its founder, the industrialist Samuel Courtauld, it was a deeply felt and personal lifelong ambition that these great pictures should be seen and enjoyed by the widest possible public, and his creation of a £50,000 purchase fund for the Tate and the National Gallery helped to lay the foundations of Britain's national collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
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