REVIEW I Impressions and Impressionism: A Collector’s Delight
Under the auspices of Geelong Gallery’s director, Humphrey Clegg, and co-curated by Marianne Mathieu, former scientific director of the Musée Marmottan Monet, and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, the great-great-granddaughter of Paul Durand-Ruel (1831–1922), Discovering the Impressionists coincides with Geelong Gallery’s 130th anniversary. The exhibition also complements the gallery’s own extensive collection, which Clegg says, “was built […]
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BOOK REVIEW | Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
Skilfully assimilating secondary sources throughout Paris in Ruins, Smee at the conclusion of Part One, “Salon of 1869,” writes that Auguste Renoir’s and Claude Monet’s 1869 paintings of La Grenouillère, a popular rowing and bathing resort on the Island of Croissy at Bougival, in effect “invented Impressionism.” Painted in plein air with” short, staccato strokes, […]
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