Review
This is in effect the Courtauld Institute Gallery's new souvenir guide and includes a well-illustrated history of its various collections and of Somerset House where it now resides. One of the most under-visited art collections in the UK, the Courtauld owns half a dozen of the world's most important impressionist and post-impressionist paintings including Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere and a clutch of famous works by Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin and Monet which are here superbly reproduced full-page in colour. With substantial captions aimed at the general reader, these megastars nevertheless sit rather oddly alongside the lesser stars of the early collections which include paintings by Bellini and Rubens, and it is difficult to see to whom, apart from visitors to the collection, this rather conservatively produced paperback will appeal. (Kirkus UK)
Book Description
Published to coincide with the re-opening in October 1998 of The Courtauld Institute at Somerset House, the Strand, London, after refurbishment
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