Post-Impressionism

Cross-Currents in European Painting

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS LONDON 1979-80

Catalogue published in association with WEIDENFELD AND NICOLSON LONDON

Contents

LIST OF LENDERS 6

Foreword 7
Hugh Casson President of the Royal Academy

NOTES TO USERS 8

Introduction 9
Alan Bowness

France
John House and MaryAnne Stevens
The Legacy of Impressionism in France 13
Innovation and Consolidation in French Painting    19
CATALOGUE 26

Germany, Norway and Switzerland
Norman Rosenthal and Gillian Perry
Idealism and Naturalism in Painting 150
CATALOGUE 154

Great Britain and Ireland
Anna Gruetzner
Two Reactions to French Painting in Britain 178
CATALOGUE 183

Italy
Sandra Berresford
Divisionism: Its Origins, Its Aims and Its Relationship to French Post-Impressionist Painting 218
CATALOGUE 223

The Low Countries
MaryAnne Stevens with Joop Joostens
Belgian Art: Les XX and the Libre Esthetique 252
Painting in Holland 255
CATALOGUE 260

CHRONOLOGY 280

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 298

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 300

PHOTOGRAPHIC ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 301

INDEX OF ARTISTS 302

THE FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY 303

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