Product Description: The life of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. Abandoning a career in banking, a family and his homeland, in the last decade of the nineteenth century he sailed from France to the South Seas to seek a life “in ecstasy, in peace and for art...read more

Product Description: Recently named one of the world's top 200 collectors by ARTnews, Scott M. Black has developed an exceptional collection of Impressionist, Postimpressionist and Modernist works over the past two decades. Ranging from sculptures by Rodin, Maillol and Moore to paintings by (among others) Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Leger, Picasso, Braque, Vuillard, Signac, De Chirico, Miro and Magritte and works on paper by Chagall, Pissarro and Degas, this is indeed one of the world's most notable private holdings...read more

The life of Paul Gauguin is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. A banker and “Sunday painter,” he left behind family and homeland and sailed to the South Seas, seeking a life “in ecstasy, in peace, and for art.” Gauguin Tahiti, the first major retrospective of the artist's work in fifteen years, offers an in-depth study of the fabled Polynesian years that have so defined our image of the painter. Alongside essays by leading American and French critics on every aspect of Gauguin's art, from the legendary canvases to his sculptures, ceramics and innovative graphic works, are discussions of the Polynesian society, culture and religion that helped shape them; an in-depth biographical narrative of the artist's life, with the many epiphanies, frustrations and discoveries that make his time in the South Seas one of the most mythologically potent episodes in the history of Western art; and a chronicle of his changing fortunes in the century since his death. At the center of it all is Gauguin's 1897 masterpiece, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, the summation and crowning glory of his mature career, presented with unprecedented depth and authority. Over one hundred years later, Gauguin remains one of the most enigmatic and attractive figures of 19th-century art, the very pivot of modernism, and Gauguin Tahiti finally portrays this crucial period of his life in all its color and drama.

Product Description: This large, lavish journey through the art of the 19th-century French landscape offers a host of masterful works, among them Corot's Forest of Fontainbleau, Millet's End of the Hamlet of Gruchy, Renoir's Rocky Crags at L'Estaque, and Monet's Rue de la Bavolle, Honfleur...read more

The art of still life painting is captured in dozens of remarkable reproductions of masterworks by seventeen great Impressionist artists, including Van Gogh, Renoir, CTzanne, Gauguin, Pissaro, Monet, and Manet, accompanied by an authoritative introduction to the still-life tradition in painting and its history. (view table of contents)

Describes Monet's paintings (view table of contents)

Describes Monet's paintings (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Van Gogh Portraits features an extensive selection of the artist's self-portraits and paintings of his friends, neighbours, family and other figures from his daily life.

More than two hundred full-color reproductions complement an authoritative study of the portrait paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, providing a close-up look at works from all stages of his career in essays by six distinguished art historians. 15,000 first printing. BOMC Main.

Released in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of her work at The Art Institute of Chicago in October, a biography of a notable American female artist traces her influences and her role in American art, and includes numerous reproductions of her paintings. 25,000 first printing. BOMC & QPB. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Shackelford, George

Product Description: Book by Neff, Emily Ballew, Shackelford, George T.

Since 1975, the Houston-based Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation has formed a distinguished collection of European Old Master paintings from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century for exhibition in museums, universities, and art centers throughout Texas. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies a major exhibition of the foundation's finest paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Prominent experts introduce these masterpieces of the Blaffer Collection in essays on still life, landscape, genre painting, portraiture, and history painting.