Impressionist Paintings in the Louvre by Germain Bazin, translated by S. Cunliffe-Owen

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Bazin, Germain, 1901-1990

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TextLanguage: en Original language: fr Publication details: Thames and Hudson 1963Edition: Third Impression in Paperback of Fourth Revision 1963Title translated: Cunliffe-Owen, SSubject(s):

Summary: Impressionism is so much a French movement that it should be no suprise that the galleries of the Louvre at the Jeu de Paume contain such a superb collection of this school. The suprise comes when we see that the walls of the gallery are rich with the sunlight of the Impressionist world, the gaiety of picnics by the river, of cornfields and the glistening cobbles of city streets. To enter the galleries is to go from light into light, luminous, vibrating with an eternal summer. Every picture in this magnificent collection is illustrated and documented and the finest, selected by M. Bazin himself, are reproduced in colour. The text, as is only to be expected from the Conservateur-en-Chef of the Louvre, is lucid, free from art-jargon, remarkably informative, and gives us the key to this sunlit art. This is a superb introduction to the Jeu de Paume and to Impressionism itself.

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Impressionism is so much a French movement that it should be no suprise that the galleries of the Louvre at the Jeu de Paume contain such a superb collection of this school. The suprise comes when we see that the walls of the gallery are rich with the sunlight of the Impressionist world, the gaiety of picnics by the river, of cornfields and the glistening cobbles of city streets. To enter the galleries is to go from light into light, luminous, vibrating with an eternal summer. Every picture in this magnificent collection is illustrated and documented and the finest, selected by M. Bazin himself, are reproduced in colour. The text, as is only to be expected from the Conservateur-en-Chef of the Louvre, is lucid, free from art-jargon, remarkably informative, and gives us the key to this sunlit art. This is a superb introduction to the Jeu de Paume and to Impressionism itself.

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