Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro, 1865-1885

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, June 26 to September 12, 2005; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 20, 2005 to January 16, 2006; and the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, February 27 to May 28, 2006. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Pioneering modern painting; Still modern?; Origins: two foreigners; the formation of a new language in painting; Dialogues in word and paint; Reviewing the past and facing the end; Impressionism, post-impressionism: it's all modern painting; Plates; "Setting the Louvre on fire": radical technique and ideology in early works; Reciprocal gazes: portraits and self-portraits; Portraits on paper: drawings; Louveciennes/Louveciennes: "to each his own sensation"; Still lifes of the 1870s: a classic genre "improperly" painted; Building with paint: houses and village streets in Auvers-sur-Oise and Pontoise; A turning road: experiments with composition and the palette knife in 1875; Separate paths through a shared landscape: the late 1870s and the third impressionist exhibition; Contrasts in pure colors: L'Estaque and Pontoise; A backward glance: Cezanne reconsiders Pissarro's early work; Salut and farewell: a final interaction.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.