The Private Lives of the Impressionists
by Sue Roe
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New York Times Bestseller "Anyone who has ever lost themselves in Monet's color-saturated gardens or swooned over Degas's dancers will enjoy this revealing group portrait of the artists who founded the Impressionist movement. . . . For the armchair dilettante, as well as the art-history student, this is lively, required reading." - People The first book to offer an intimate and lively biography of the world's most popular group of artists, including Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, show more Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, today astonishing sums are paid for their paintings. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers-but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? Sue Roe's colorful, lively, poignant, and superbly researched biography, The Private Lives of the Impressionists, follows an extraordinary group of artists into their Paris studios, down the rural lanes of Montmartre, and into the rowdy riverside bars of a city undergoing monumental change. Vivid and unforgettable, it casts a brilliant, revealing light on this unparalleled society of genius colleagues who lived and worked together for twenty years and transformed the art world forever with their breathtaking depictions of ordinary life. show lessTags
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Generally I am more interested in getting to know the person than learning the details of what he did. This book talks about both, but the emphasis is on the people. And because the Impressionist painters as well as their place and time are infinitely interesting (to me), I enjoyed the heck out of this book.
This is well-researched, extremely readable looks at the interactions and development of the Impressionists. Roe is knowledgeable and handles her subject well.
I found it hard to put down.
I found it hard to put down.
loving this book so far!
Enlightening and fun.
Booklist starred 11/01/06
Publishers Weekly 08/28/06
Kirkus Review starred 09/01/06
Reference and Research Book News 02/01/07
Library Journal 12/01/06
Publishers Weekly 08/28/06
Kirkus Review starred 09/01/06
Reference and Research Book News 02/01/07
Library Journal 12/01/06
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Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Édouard Manet; Berthe Morisot; Mary Cassatt; Paul Gauguin; Pierre-Auguste Renoir; Edgar Degas (show all 7); Camille Pissarro
- Important places
- Musée d'Orsay
- First words
- New York, 1886.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Paul Durand-Ruel died in 1922.
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- Members
- 463
- Popularity
- 65,575
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (3.94)
- Languages
- 5 — English, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 14
- ASINs
- 4
