Impressionisti e moderni
Capolavori dalla Phillips Collection di Washington
edited by Susan Behrends Frank

The Phillips Collection in Washington is one of the most important art collections in the world. It is also the first museum of modern art ever to have been founded in the United States and it continues to this day to testify to the sophisticated taste and enlightened mentality of its creater, Duncan Phillips. A passionate collector, Phillips nurtured an instinctive enthusiasm for the art of his own day along with a deep-seated belief that modern art was inextricably bound up with the art of the past. His collection consists primarily of European and American painting of the 19th and 20th centuries, but it also includes the work of artists from earlier eras whom Phillips argued had played a crucial role in the development of modern art.
This volume, published to tie in with a travelling exhibition that is due to be inaugurated at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome in October 2015, presents sixty-two of the most important pieces from the Washington museum – modern masterpieces by such artists Bonnard, Braque, Cézanne, Degas, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Matisse, Modigliani, Monet, Picasso and many more – alongside the work of such proto-modern artists as Constable, El Greco, Goya and Ingres and several seminal French and American paintings from the postwar era The volume, with introductory essays by the curators discussing the collection as a whole, also includes biographies of the artists and a purposive chronology.

Entries by: Susan Behrends Frank, Claudio Zambianchi

Silvana Editoriale
24 × 24 cm
168 pages
70 colour illustrations
paperback with flaps
Italian edition
€ 18,00