J. Patrice Marandel

INTRODUCTION byJ. PATRICE MARANDEL formercurator: The Art Institute of Chicago o F ALL MOVEMENTS THAT SHAPED the history of modern art, impressionism had the most ex- traordinary fate. Despised, scorned, ridiculed by most contemporary critics, rejected by the public, collected only by a...

INTRODUCTION byJ. PATRICE MARANDEL formercurator: The Art Institute of Chicago Op h all movements that shaped the histOry of modern art, impressionism had the most extraordinary fate. Despised, scorned, ridiculed by most contemporary critics, rejected by the public, collected only by a few...