Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism : The Annenberg Collection

The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised and expanded edition of the 1989 publicationMasterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, this handsome volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations.

Colin B. Bailey is chief curator at the Frick Collection, New York. Joseph J. Rishel is the Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900, and senior curator of the John G. Johnson Collection and the Rodin Museum at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Mark Rosenthal is curator of contemporary art at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach.