The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III:
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings
Richard R. Brettell, Paul Hayes Tucker & Natalie H. Lee

Cloth | February 2010 | $125.00 / £85.00
496 pp. | 8 1/2 x 11 | 130 color illus. 300 halftones.

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Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, embraced both traditional and modern masters. This volume catalogues 130 nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings that are now part of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. The majority of the works are by artists based in France, but there are also examples from the United States, Latin America, and India, reflecting Lehman's global interests.

The catalogue opens with outstanding paintings by Ingres, Theodore Rousseau, and Corot among other early nineteenth-century artists. They are joined by an exemplary selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases by Degas, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Seurat, Signac, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Gauguin. Twentieth-century masters include Bonnard, Matisse, Rouault, Dalí, and Balthus. Newly researched modern works are represented by Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Kees van Dongen, Dietz Edzard, and D.G. Kulkarni (DIZI).

From Robert Lehman's studied and conventional taste for nineteenth-century French academic practitioners to his intuitive eye for emerging young artists of his own time, all are documented and discussed here. Some three hundred comparative illustrations supplement the catalogue entries, as do extensively researched provenance information, exhibition histories, and references. The volume also includes a bibliography and indexes.

Richard R. Brettell is the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Paul Hayes Tucker is the Paul Hayes Tucker Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Natalie H. Lee is an independent art historian.

Another Princeton book by Richard R. Brettell:

• The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume IX: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Drawings.

Subject Area:

• Art and Architecture

Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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