The Post-Impressionists

London: BCA. Very Good/Very Good. 1979. Hard Cover. 4to 29 x 23.6 x 2.3 Cm Reprint. BCA. Dust jacket complete except price clipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 48 illustrations in colour and 153 b/w. 176 pages clean and tight. The paintings of Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat and Cezanne are masterpieces well known throughout the world. They stand between the achievements of the Impressionists and twentieth-century art, richly adventurous in their exploration of new forms and ways of feeling. All of them continued to have a direct influence on the major developments of modern painting, each subsequent generation interpreting their works anew. But Post-Impressionism was not limited to these four outstanding figures; one of the aims of this book is to show the pervasive influence they exercised on a host of other painters in the last twenty years of the nineteenth century. The Pointillist paintings of Seurat attracted a variety of artists in France, Belgium and Holland; Gauguin was at the centre of a flourishing international group of painters, and his example had a considerable influence on the work of the Nabis, of whom Vuillard and Bonnard are the most notable representatives. Young painters from abroad came under their spell at the turn of the century - Munch from Norway and Picasso from Spain. Richard Shone also discusses the Post-Impressionists' debt to the pioneering achievements of their elders such as Monet and Renoir. By establishing their links with the immediate past and the value of their work for the future, Post-Impressionism appears not as an isolated phenomenon but as a movement of great variety, firmly situated in the tradition of European painting. .