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Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art
Organized by the National Gallery of Art, and drawn especially from the collection of Ailsa Mellon Bruce and her brother, Paul Mellon, this exhibition showcases the similar aesthetic goals shared by nineteenth-century French avant-garde painters in approximately 70 Impressionist and Post-impressionist portraits, landscapes, interiors and still lifes. The plein-air practices of Impressionist precursors Eugene Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind, inspired brightly colored, luminous works by featured artists Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley. Intimate Impressions also features paintings that are personal in subject matter, including fascinating self-portraits by Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as works depicting family members or friends and views of the artist鈥檚 favorite spaces. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
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Organized by the National Gallery of Art, and drawn especially from the collection of Ailsa Mellon Bruce and her brother, Paul Mellon, this exhibition showcases the similar aesthetic goals shared by nineteenth-century French avant-garde painters in approximately 70 Impressionist and Post-impressionist portraits, landscapes, interiors and still lifes. The plein-air practices of Impressionist precursors Eugene Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind, inspired brightly colored, luminous works by featured artists Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley. Intimate Impressions also features paintings that are personal in subject matter, including fascinating self-portraits by Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as works depicting family members or friends and views of the artist鈥檚 favorite spaces. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
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