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The City of Glasgow possesses an internationally-renowned collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. This volume, the catalogue for a major exhibition, features 64 of the finest paintings in this collection, including important works by Rousseau, Corot, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Derain, Matisse and Rouault. The volume provides a short essay on each work as well as full catalogue details. There are also four introductory essays by prominent scholars that set the paintings in context. Irene Maver examines the social, political and economic environment of Glasgow from its beginnings until World War I; Frances Fowle charts the taste for French art in the west of Scotland during the late-19th and early-20th century; Hugh Stevenson explores the early history of the city's collection and its assimilation of contemporary French paintings; and Belinda Thomson discusses how Glasgow's collection relates to the wider historical context of French painting of the period.
