A detailed, scholarly study of Picasso's drawings analyzes 102 seminal works, examining his draftsmanship as a key to understanding the complexity of Picasso's art

Product Description: This twelve-volume series for the general reader reproduces works of art representing the resources of all eighteen curatorial departments of the Museum.

A lavishly illustrated catalog of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores the special relationships between the Impressionist painters, discusses the paintings themselves, and includes bibliographies of two hundred works.

A reference work on Corot, the most important nineteenth century French landscape artist. Included are essays on Corot's life and artistic development, providing extensive information about his paintings, their collectors and forgeries.

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The names Manet and VelÁzquez are used in the title of this exhibition (in 2003 at the MusÉe d'Orsay in Paris and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art) and catalog to attract interest to the much broader topic of the discovery, collecting, and influence on 19th- century painters in France and America of Spanish painting. The beautifully illustrated catalog contains 11 essays on subjects that include the formation of the collections of Spanish painting at the Louvre, the Prado, Dresden's GemÄldegalerie, and the Hispanic Museum in New York; the discovery of Spanish painting in 19th-century France; the reception of Goya in France; and the profound influence of Spanish painting on American art. Distributed by Yale U. Press. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Description: This handsome book features 63 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, which was recently given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it will be exhibited beginning in September 2007...read more