A unique group of paintings, drawings, and prints, principally by Cézanne, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Monet, and Guillaumin, which were collected by Dr. Paul Gachet and now have their home in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, are publishedmany for the first timein this catalogue that accompanied an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dr. Gachet, a physician, amateur artists, and colorful personality who counted the painters among his friends, comes to life in an essay describing his activities, his cultural milieu, and his relationships with numerous artists. The works themselves, along with copies of the paintings made in Gachet’s circle and memorabilia, are fully illustrated and discussed.

Cezanne to Van Gogh The Collection of Doctor Gachet

Arts & Photography

Stein, Susan Alyson

Distel, Anne

Distel, Madame Anne

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Metropolitan Museum of Art

This summary catalogue provides comprehensive and detailed information about the contents of Edgar Degas's private collection.

The Private Collection of Edgar Degas A Summary Catalogue

Ives, Colta

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most famous pioneers of Post-Impressionism. He had been a Parisian stockbroker, devoted family man, art collector, and Sunday painter for over a decade, when he set sail for the South Seas in 1891. Finding inspiration in the arts of ancient and primitive cultures, he began to create curiously abstract, vibrantly colored paintings and crude, carved reliefs. Few of these works were appreciated during Gauguin's lifetime, but their strange, innovative brilliance gradually became recognized and profoundly influenced twentieth-century art. This volume presents paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by Gauguin that attest to his genius, all works drawn from public and private collections in New York, including more than fifty from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The text includes a consideration of Gauguin's exotic voyages and their reflections in his art; a history of the reception and appreciation of Gauguin's work on this shore of the Atlantic; and revelations arising from the recent examination of paintings in the Metropolitan Museum's collection. Each of Gauguin's works from these New York collections is in color with accompanying commentary.

The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections

Hale, Charlotte

To mark the centenary of Georges Seurat's death in 1891, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Musée d'Orsay and The Metropolitan Museum of Art organized a landmark retrospective, Georges Seurat, 1859–1891, which will be seen on both sides of the Atlantic. In this exhibition and publication, such masterpieces as Parade de cirque, Cirque, and Jeune femme se poudrant, and an extraordinary group of seascapes testify to Seurat's pictorial ambitions. His splendid drawings in conté crayon place him, with Ingres, among the greatest draftsmen of the nineteenth century. These sheets and the beautiful series of small paintings on wood―his croquetons (little sketches)―give a more intimate view of Seurat. A large number of works are exhibited together for the first time, thanks to the generosity of private collectors. This publication is meant to stimulate a fresh view of Seurat as well as to display his work. A century after Seurat's death, we are now able to correct some of the myths that grew up around him. Because he died at the age of thirty-one, he was long believed to have produced only a few pictures and to have died of consumption or some other frailty (so tenacious is the romantic paradigm of an early death). To the contrary, he was tall for his era (five feet, nine and one-half inches), and his friends always described him as being robust, but he ultimately succumbed to an epidemic of virulent diphtheria. As for his productivity, from his one decade of maturity there survive six huge canvases and sixty smaller ones, about 170 wood panels, 230 completed drawings, and fourty-five studies or fragmentary drawings, among other works. Harder to overcome than the myth of a frail, unproductive artist is the idea that Seurat's work was all but abstract, that the heart of his art lay not in his subjects but in his geometric compositions which presented summary types rather than individual humans. This book contests that Seurat's types are not "abstract"―that they are not the residue of a purely formal instinct but are brilliant visual distillations of psychological and social meanings. [This book was originally published in 1991 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Georges Seurat, 1859–1891

Tinterow, Gary

Cachin, Françoise

Herbert, Robert L.

Individual Artists

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) believed that drawing was "the root of everything." A self-taught artist, he succeeded, between 1881 and 1890, in developing an inimitable graphic style. This book traces the artist's successive triumphs as a draftsman, first in the Netherlands and later in France, highlighting the diversity of his technical invention and the striking continuity of his vision. Given the pivotal role drawings played in Van Gogh's artistic conception and the rich dialectic they enjoyed with his oil paintings, a small selection of related canvases by the artist is also featured. This book presents approximately 120 works in charcoal, ink, graphite, watercolor, and diluted oils. The authors explore enduring questions that surround Van Gogh's drawings, including their manufacture, artistic precedents, and contribution to Modernism. In addition, the text discusses the significance of the artist's drawing practice to his development as a painter. The essays and entries were painstakingly researched and provide fresh interpretations of the motivating influences that shaped the artist's contributions to the history of drawing. [This book was originally published in 2005 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings

Van Heugten, Sjraar

Vellekoop, Marije

History & Criticism

The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

Dumas, Ann

Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Book by Ives, Colta Feller, Stein, Susan Alyson, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.)

Ives, Colta Feller

Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (1828-1909), a physician and amateur painter, was among the first to appreciate the work of Van Gogh, Cezanne, Pissarro and other Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. He befriended many artists, and bought and received as gifts a large number of artworks, including masterpieces such as Van Gogh's "Church at Auvers" and Cezanne's "A Modern Olympia". Beginning in 1949, Gachet's children made a series of major donations to the French state from their father's extraordinary collection. Published to accompany an international exhibition, this volume presents the entire Gachet donation of paintings, drawings, prints, and even memorabilia, and also provides information on the works and the copies of them. An essay describes the eventful lives of the Gachets and their close relationships with Cezanne, Van Gogh and others.

Cezanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet

Great exhibition catalog, nicely illustrated, featuring the art of van Gogh, Cezanne, Renoir, Monet, other Impressionists and late 19th Century European artists. Over 150 color and black and white illustrations of works of art - paintings, prints, drawings. Also illustrations of photographs of the artists, their studios and surroundings. Includes notes / bibliography. Softcover.

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Grand Palais (Paris, France)

Album Amicorum Kenneth C. Lindsay: Essays on Art and Literature

State Univ of New York at

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