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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence by Martin Gayford Publisher Comments From October to December of 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a yellow house in the south of France with Vincent van Gogh. They were the odd couple of the art world -- one calm, the other volatile -- and the denouement of their living arrangement was explosive... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Judgment of Paris by Ross King Staff Pick With consummate skill, Ross King resurrects the rivalry between the French art establishment and the artists who gave birth to the Impressionist movement. Focusing on the decade between two famous exhibitions, the shocking Salon des Refusés in 1863 and... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe Publisher Comments A lively group portrait of the Impressionist artists traces how the movement's early leaders met in the studios of Paris and lived and worked together closely for several years, supporting one another through a series of emotional and financial... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago by Douglas W Druick Publisher Comments The Art Institute of Chicago has one of the largest and finest holdings of late 19th-century French art in the world. This lavishly illustrated book features over ninety paintings—nearly the entire collection—engagingly discussed in... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Impressionists side by side :their friendships, rivalries, and artistic exchanges by Barbara Ehrli White Publisher Comments In this extraordinary volume, art historian Barbara Ehrlich White considers the achievements of the Impressionists from an entirely fresh perspective. She focuses on the personal and professional relationships between seven pairs of artists: Degas and... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $29.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Ultimate Trophy: How the Impressionist Painting Conquered the World by Philip Hook Publisher Comments In 1892 Degas' painting In the Caf???? was sold for a mere 180 guineas at auction, with the public hissing as the hammer fell. Less than a century later another Impressionist work, Renoir's Moulin de la Galette, sold at Sotheby's for $78 million... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Impressionism: Reflections and Perceptions by Meyer Schapiro Publisher Comments Writing with the sensitivity and erudition that made him one of the most illuminating and accessible writers of his generation, Meyer Schapiro offers a fresh and exciting new look at "the Impressionist family". He bypasses the popular preference, in art... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt by Jeffrey Meyers Publisher Comments Impressionist Quartet draws us into the inner lives of a core group of mid-nineteenth-century artists-Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot-known, collectively, as the "Impressionists." Derided by critics, sneered at by... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Women Impressionists by Ingrid Pfeiffer Publisher Comments The female members of the nineteenth-century Impressionist movement are usually painted out of official art history, although Edouard Manet, for one, testified to the talents of his friends Berthe Morisot (whose Harbor at Lorient of 1869 he so admired... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Chronicle of Impressionism: An Intimate Diary of the Lives and World of the Great Artists by Bernard Denvir Publisher Comments When Monet falls and injures his leg, young Frederic Bazille entertains the sufferer by painting his portrait in bed; when Monet is penniless and his mistress pregnant, Bazille buys a painting out of charity. But Bazille dies in the Franco-Prussian War... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Weekends with Impressionists by Carla Brenner Publisher Comments As their antidote to the pressures of the turn-of-the-century world, the impressionists left a celebrated and adored legacy of paintings depicting flowers, gardens, afternoon walks, and summer evenings. From Monet and Renoir to Cassatt and Manet, this... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting and Sculpture: In the Israel Museum Jerusalem by Stephanie Rachum Publisher Comments Jerusalem's Israel Museum has long been renowned for its collections of Judaica, Near Eastern artifacts, and rare books, including the Dead Sea Scrolls. But the museum's hidden treasures are its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Impressionism (99 Edition) by James Henry Rubin Publisher Comments Celebrations of city streets; tranquil vistas of the countryside and seashore; enchanting images of the leisured classes in domestic interiors or at fashionable Parisian cafes -- the work of the Impressionists gives pleasure to art lovers everywhere. But... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Impression Painting Quickly in France by Richard R Brettell Synopsis An investigation of the impressions, or painted sketches, that were actually done on the spot in France between 1860 and 1890. The book also surveys the various practices of individual artists in the making, signing, exhibiting and selling of impressions.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Impressionism: 50 Paintings You Should Know by Ines Jane Engelmann Book News Annotation Engelmann, who is not otherwise identified, begins with a 24-page essay about the school of painting that during the final third of the 19th century shocked critics and the public not only with a new style of painting that many saw as nothing but... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Flexible
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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art by National Gallery Of Art Publisher Comments This dazzling selection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings features lavish reproductions, lively commentary, and a beautiful slipcase that will delight art lovers. The National Gallery of Art in Washington possesses nearly 400 French... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Impressionism by Ingo F. Walther Publisher Comments This monograph covers the full scope of Impressionist painting. It outlines the history of Impressionism in France, addressing not only the work of the acknowledged masters, but also that of such unjustly neglected artists as Bazille, Caillebotte, Berthe... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King Publisher Comments While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Impressionism by Berenice Morvan Publisher Comments Impression is often understood as a temporary confederation of artists who banded together to defy the tyrannical rules of the 19th century French art establishment. But, in reality, it was so much more than that. This stunningly illustrated study... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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