Sue Roe
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvi, 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century. The cross-fertilization...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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...