Books written by Ann Dumas

  • The Private Collection of Edgar Degas
    The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

    Ann Dumas, Edgar Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Gary Tinterow, Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff Colta Feller Ives. Photograph Credits ... 63, 101 Boston, Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: figs.

  • Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past
    Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past

    A detailed chronology and fascinating comparisons of landscapes, portraits, nudes, still lifes, and genre paintings provide readers with new opportunities to understand the work of both the Impressionists and Old Masters.

  • Degas and America: The Early Collectors
    Degas and America: The Early Collectors

    Rebecca Rabinow writes of Louisine Havemeyer, the first great American collector of Degas, who was led by her friend Mary Cassatt to begin amassing a collection that was bequeathed to...

  • Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes
    Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes

    The great French Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is best known for his images of Parisian life-for his superb renditions of cafe society, the ballet, and horse racing-and for his intimate...

  • Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
    Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

    This book explores the symbiotic relationship that developed during the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth between artists and gardens, focusing on Monet and the creation of his garden at Giverny.

  • Matisse, His Art and His Textiles
    Matisse, His Art and His Textiles

    This illustrated book, which includes over 100 works by Matisse together with numerous colourful fabrics, is the catalogue of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Musee Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambresis; the Royal...

  • Félix Vallotton
    Félix Vallotton

    SELLING POINT: * An important study of the work of Felix Vallotton, a prominent member of Les Nabis and a contemporary of Bonnard and Vuillard 150 colour images

  • Picasso and Paper
    Picasso and Paper

    Picasso and Paper examines a particular aspect of his legendary capacity for invention: his imaginative and original use of paper.

  • The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
    The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters

    Vincent van Gogh (1853?1890) is one of the greatest figures in Western art. Revered for his bold, expressionist paintings, he is also admired as a prodigious and eloquent letter writer....

  • Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
    Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

    "Exhibition organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts, London."

  • Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past
    Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past

    "Inspiring Impressionism" explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists' commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a...

  • The Private Collection of Edgar Degas
    The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

    When Edgar Degas died in 1917, his enormous art collection, consisting of several thousand paintings, drawings, and prints, came to light. This remarkable assemblage included great numbers of works by...