The Impressionists at First Hand

An updated edition of this classic collection of letters, critical reviews, and reminiscences by impressionist artists and their contemporaries.

The impressionists—Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and others—are probably the most popular of all artistic schools. Their struggle to impose a new vision is one of the most absorbing stories in the whole history of art. With imagination and insight, art historian Bern...