RICHARD SHONE

Sisley An introduction to the work of Alfred Sisley.Richard Shone One of a series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art This volume on Sisley contains an extensive essay, 48 full-page colour plates, and is accompanied by extensive notes and comparative illustrations Provides incomparable value Highly regarded for its insight and authority Alfred Sisley is now recognized as one of the great landscape painters of the nineteenth century, and a leading figure in the Impressionist. English-born, he lived all his life in France, and the 61 colour illustrations in this book include the celebrated snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, his views of the flooded Seine at Port-Marly, and his paintings and colourful regattas on the Thames with Kenneth Clark described as embodying "the perfect moment of Impressionism". Richard Shone has completely updated his essay, fist published in 1979, in the light if his major 1992 Phaidon monograph on Sisley, selected new colour plates and added extensive commentaries on the illustrations to the work of Alfred Sisley.

Sisley A survey of one of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th-century.Richard Shone The most detailed and authoritative survey yet to date on Alfred Sisley (1839-99) One of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century and a leading Impressionist Includes important series reproduced in quantity for the first time With extensive research uncovering new biographical details 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.

The Bloomsbury painters and their circle greatly influenced British artistic taste during the early decades of this century. This revised edition attempts to dispel many of the myths and misconceptions that have surrounded their work.