Alfred Sisley (The Impressionists)

From dust jacket notes: "Alfred Sisley died in poverty in 1899, after a lifetime's struggle for the recognition that never came. He was a brilliant landscape painter, a dignified and sometimes melancholy man with a deep love of the countryside, especially that of the Ile de France which had inspired so many of his canvasses. Yet the public success that eluded him in his lifetime came immediately after his death; a year later, his landscapes were fetching huge sums at auction. Sislely's reputation was at last assured....Sisley's techniques are explained in detail, and the text is handsomely complemented by the well chosen illustrations, many in full colour, presented in a large and finely printed format. The book includes a bibliography of standard reference works, and a fascinating reproduction of Sisley's 1883-1885 notebook of sketches, a complete record of his work in those years, now in the Louvre." Hardcover, 10 x 13.5 inches, 96 pages, illustrated.