Product Description: Two essays remembering Degas by the most acute observers of the avant-garde art of their time “The one great French painter, perhaps one of the greatest artists the world has ever seen.”  —Walter Sickert on Degas, 1889 This volume brings together groundbreaking and intensely personal memoirs of Degas, by George Moore, the first writer in English on Impressionism, and Walter Sickert, one of the finest English followers of Degas...read more

Product Description: This publication celebrates for the first time the important creative collaboration between the artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) and his muse, the dancer Jane Avril (1868–1943). Avril was one of the stars of Moulin Rouge in the 1890s, and was nicknamed ‘La Mélinite’ after a form of explosive...read more

A compelling study of the pioneering art of the late nineteenth century explores the dramatic influence of Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec on artists on both sides of the English Channel, revealing their bohemian views of the urban life of the period in their works and in works by others, including Whistler, Bonnard, Tissot, and Vuillard.

Product Description: While gender has been the subject of extensive critical inquiry, the debate has focused primarily on the human, particularly the female, body. The spaces bodies occupy and the ways in which those spaces are depicted in landscape art has not, however, been subject to investigation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This study presents a catalogue of many of the known drawings and includes a photographic reproduction of the exhibition catalogues for the Carfax Gallery in 1911 and 1912. These documents, with sketches against each entry, enable scholars to establish the pictures original titles...read more