Claude Monet: Women in a Garden

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22307, 22 January 1938, Page 16

Claude Monet: Women in a Garden

Messrs Allen and Unwin, in conjunction with The Phaidon Press, Vienna, have done art-lovers an almost incredibly munificent service. "The Impressionists," a large quarto volume, is published at half-a-guinea, which means that its plates, in photogravure and colour, cost about one penny each. Technically, they are as near perfection as such things can be. Artistically, they gather some of the finest achievements of a brilliant century

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in French art, the work of the superb and profoundly influential Impressionists. Edouard Manet is represented in 44 plates; Camille Pissarro, in 7; Alfred Sisley, in 4; Claude Monet, in 12; Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in 16; Paul Gauguin, in 9; Degas, in 13; and Henri de ToulouseLautrec, in 11. There is, besides, an

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