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Vincent Willem van Gogh
The Paintings of Vincent van Gogh — Holland, Paris, Arles and Auvers (1881-1890)
Born into an upper-middle class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet, and thoughtful. As a young man, he worked as an art dealer, often traveling, but became depressed
after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion and spent time as a Protestant missionary in Southern Belgium.
Van Gogh loved art from an early age. He began to draw as a child, and he continued making drawings throughout the years leading to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during his last two years. He died at the age of 37.
In just over a decade, van Gogh produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1.300 watercolours, drawings, sketches and prints.
Vincent van Gogh lived 120 years ago, and yet his artwork is still altering the way we view beauty, persona, individuality, and style in art. His many paintings and drawings have been copied by thousands but duplicated by none. What people today consider the archetypical artistic persona is largely the result of his influence.
This book contains 500 paintings on 230 color plates, many of which are in private collections and not easily accessible. The book includes a detailed biography and a eulogy by contemporary artists: Emile Barnard and Paul Gauguin.
Size 8.5 x 11 inches (US Letter) — 256 Pages — full colour — ISBN 978-616-598-880-3
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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
The Paintings of Paul Gauguin — Bretagne, Provence, Martinique,Tahiti and the Marquesas (1887-1903)
In a somber, slightly hoarse voice, Gauguin said: "Primitive art comes from the spirit and uses nature. So-called refined art comes from sensuality and serves nature.
Nature is the servant of the first and the mistress of the second. But the servant cannot forget her origins, she degrades the artist by allowing him to adore her.
This is how we fall into the abominable error of Naturalism. Naturalism begins with the Greece of Pericles. Since then, there have been no more or less great artists except
those who have somehow reacted against this error; but their reactions have been no more than leaps of memory, glimmers of good sense within a movement of decadence, in the end,
uninterrupted for centuries. Truth is purely cerebral art, this is primitive art-the most learned of all-this was Egypt. There is the principle.
In our present misery, there can be no salvation without a rational and sincere return to the principle. And this return is the necessary action of Symbolism in poetry and art."
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This book includes a biography, a eulogy by Charles Morice (1903), excerpts from Gauguin's book "Noa Noa" and 310 paintings on 224 color plates, and is a rather large collection in one compendium,
covering the prolific painter's and artists most dramatic and expressive period from 1887 to his death in 1903.
Size 8½ x 11 inches (US Letter) — 260 pages — full colour — ISBN ISBN 978-616-598-879-7
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Oscar-Claude Monet
The Paintings of Claude Monet
Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions
before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).
This book is the most comprehensive collection of Claude Monet's Paintings ever published, covering the artist's entire 64 years of creation; a keepsake for the connoisseur of fine art.
On 484 pages, this book includes a detailed biography, a resume written by Monet himself (in English and French), and over 900 paintings on 460 colour plates (large format 8½ x 11 inches),
as well as a special section of Monet's famous Water Lilies Series, and the Series of the London Parliament Buildings and Bridges.
Monet's paintings obtain record prices at auctions. Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought for a record
$41.4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6th May 2008. The previous record for Monet's painting stood at $36.5 million. Le basin aux nyphéas from the water lilies series
sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 for GBP 40,921,250 ($80,451,178) setting a new auction record for the artist. Nymphéas - Water Lilies sold for $71,846,600. This was one of the highest
prices paid for Monet's work.
Hardcover: — Size: 8½ x 11 inches — 484 pages full colour
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Paul Cézanne
The Paintings of Paul Cezanne — The Years 1860-1906
Unlike many artists of his period who painted in only one area of composition, Cezanne was adept at many areas of composition including landscapes, still lives, nude studies, and portraits.
The artist completed many portraits, often using models from real life as his guides. He employed a light style that was related to his direct observation of his subject,
as indicated by the lightly amused looks on Madame Cezanne's face and her engaged postures
From Cezanne's home in Aix-en-Provence, Southern France, where he spent many of his later years painting, he developed a special relationship with the landscape of the Provence
and painted many renditions of it, especially the mountain Sainte-Victoire in the background.
'The Bathers' (1900) is the largest in a series of nude bather paintings by Cezanne (see back cover), and is often referred to as the 'Large Bathers' or 'Big Bathers'
to distinguish it from the other bather scenes painted by Cezanne. It is also considered one of the masterpieces of modern art, as well as Cezanne's finest painting.
It was purchased for $100,000 for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which was criticized for the expenditure because at the time ten percent of Philadelphia's population
was without bathtubs. The nude figures in the painting have been compared to Picasso's later work 'Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon,' suggesting the influence that Cezanne
had on the painters of the period.
Size 8½ x 11 inches (US Letter) — 392 pages — full colour
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Henri Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa
The Paintings of Toulous-Lautrec
This book contains a detailed biography and 350 paintings on 334 full colour plates.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was and remains a remarkable paradox," writes Florence Coman, Curator of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Scion of an
ancient aristocratic family, he spent his adult life among the common people of Paris and Montmartre, even taking rooms in a brothel, and he made the city's seamy night life,
cafés, cabarets, dance halls, and theater the principal subject of his art. In the 1860s during the renovation of Paris, Baron Haussmann's razing of the slums had marginalized
Montmartre, which became established by the 1890s as an enclave famous for its naughty nightly revelry; the community flourished with the tourist trade attracted by advertisements
in the popular press and by eye-catching posters. Lautrec's painting Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in Chilpéric chronicles the spirit, style, and spectacle of the nineties,
and underscores Lautrec's fascination with the ambiguous boundaries between art and artifice and between 'high' and 'low' art.
This work, along with his related paintings, drawings, and lithographs, embodies the artist's ultimately egalitarian vision of life and art.
Book size: 8½ x 11 inches (US Letter) — 348 pages full colour
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