Alfred Sisley (1839-99) was one of the most prominent and historically significant landscape painters of the nineteenth century and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. His celebrated snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, and his views of the flooded Seine at Pont-Marly and the colourful regattas on the Thames achieve a superb tonal balance and poetic resonance, 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 overview ever to be compiled of Sisley's life and works. With an abundant wealth of illustrations and an absorbing text - now reiussued as an attractively priced paperback - this book reveals Sisley as an artist of seductive power and originality.
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'Richard Shone's Sisley is a work of distinction: knowledgeable, thoughtful and very well written. This is the book to buy.' (Daily Telegraph)
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Height: 29 cm
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978-0-7148-3892-2 (9780714838922)
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Richard Shone is Editor of the
Burlington Magazine
and the author of
Bloomsbury Portraits
,
Walter Sickert
and
Rachel Whiteread's House
, also published by Phaidon. He was a member of the 1988 Turner Prize jury and a member of the Government Art Collection committee.
Between England and France; "Eleve de Gleyre"; family affairs; an Impressionist in the suburbs; Hampton Court; Marly-le-Roi in snow and flood; patrons and poverty; Seine et Marne; a changed man; Moret and "La Vieille Eglise"; a midsummer marriage; "Mon Malheuruex Ami".
