The Private Lives of the Impressionists
By Sue Roe
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“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, 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.
Sue Roe
Sue Roe is the author of several books, including a widely praised biography of the artist Gwen John. She lives and teaches in Brighton, England.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5From now on it will be one of my favorite books ever!!! I am really impatient to read all the other books by Sue Roe! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PLEASURE THIS BOOK GAVE ME!♥️♥️♥️
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really enjoyed reading this account of the impressionists' early lives
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enlightening and fun.