Phoebe Pool

CHAPTER ONEThe roots of ImpressionismThe history of Impressionism is now so well known that we rarely pause to wonder why a group of friends, men of different temperaments and with widely dissimilar early experiences, should so rapidly have come to share so many assumptions about the nature of...

BOí'í' fi ' i ' I T Introduction Eugene Delacroix was one of those painters like Gauguin whose impact on history was probably greater than their actual artistic achievement. 'We are all in Delacroix,' said Paul Cézanne, who produced an apotheosis of the master sailing up to the...