"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) : Impressionist Master', organized by the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (January 21, 2017 to May 21, 2017) and [Hotel de Caumont Centre d'Art] Culturespaces (June 10, 2017 to October 8, 2017)" -- Watson Library.
The English artist Alfred Sisley was a founding member of Impressionism — one of the most important movements of the modern age. His landscapes are celebrated for their subtlety and quiet variety, offering some of the finest canvases of all nineteenth-century art. His frank and sincere character is present in all of his paintings, noted for their perfection of tone, polished composition and variety of handling. Although he has been overshadowed by his more famous colleagues, he produced landscapes that strongly invoke a powerful sense of atmosphere, with impressive skies and an important understanding of the compositional features for balanced expression. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Sisley’s collected paintings in beautiful detail, with concise introductions and hundreds of high quality images. (Version 1) * The collected paintings of Alfred Sisley – over 400 images, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order * Includes reproductions of many rare works * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Sisley’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smartphones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings * Easily locate the artworks you wish to view Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting e-Art books CONTENTS: The Highlights Village Street in Marlotte (1866) View of Montmartre from the cité des Fleurs (1869) Footbridge at Argenteuil (1872) Chemin de la Machine, Louveciennes (1873) Foggy Morning, Voisins (1874) The Lesson (1874) Under the Bridge at Hampton Court (1874) Snow at Louveciennes (1875) View of Marly-le-Roi, Sunshine (1876) Flood at Port Marly (1876) Station at Sèvres (c. 1879) Small Meadows in Spring, at By (c. 1881) The Canal at Saint-Mammès (1885) The Church at Moret in Morning Sun (1893) Langland Bay, Storr’s Rock — Morning (1897) The Paintings The Collected Paintings Alphabetical List of Paintings Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set
The examples convey not only these major themes but also the painters' belief in the progress of civilization through science and industry. The book thus expands the scope of Impressionist celebrations of modernity to include what might be called Impressionism's "other landscape" and proposes that in the Impressionists' effort to forge a modern landscape art, those signs of modernity defined their vision most clearly."--BOOK JACKET.
Alfred Sisley is now recognized as one of the great landscape painters of the 19th century, and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. He divided his time between France and England and the illustrations in this volume include the snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, his views of the flooded Seine at Port-Marly, and his paintings of the regattas on the Thames, which have been described as embodying the perfect moment of Impressionism.
THE HAMMOCK: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot portrays ten remarkable years in the life of James Tissot (1836-1902), who rebuilt - and then lost - his reputation in London. THE HAMMOCK is a psychological portrait, exploring the forces that unwound the career of this complex man. Based on contemporary sources, the novel brings Tissot's world alive in a story of war, art, Society glamour, love, scandal, and tragedy.
In the 1870s, Argenteuil, located on the outskirts of Paris, was still unmarred by urban industrialization. This book explores the responses to Argenteuil of six influential painters in more than 50 of their works. Catalogue for an upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. 105 illustrations, 70 in color.
In 1874, after his participation in the first Impressionist Exhibition in Paris, Alfred Sisley enjoyed a summer break in London, where he painted studies of life & leisure along the River Thames. When he returned to Britain in 1897, he toured along the South Wales coastline & painted some of the most free & bold works he ever produced.
Alfred Sisley (1839-99) was one of the greatest landscape painters of the nineteenth century and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. His celebrated snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, his views of the flooded Seine at Pont-Marly and the colourful regattas on the Thames achieve a superb tonal balance and poetry of mood, while also giving a lively depiction of their subjects. Richard Shone brings a fresh eye and an intimate knowledge of the Ile de France to this, the most detailed and authoritative survey yet to appear of Sisley's life and works. With a wealth of illustrations and an absorbing text, and now reiussued as an attractively priced paperback, this book reveals Sisley as an artist of seductive power and originality.