For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Impressionism & Post-Impressionism

March 2026 Issue

George Prochnik

Blood on the Canvas

Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art

By Celeste Marcus

October 2024 Issue

Michael Prodger

Rebel Painters

Paris in Ruins: The Siege, the Commune and the Birth of Impressionism

By Sebastian Smee

October 2023 Issue

Sue Prideaux

The Road to Giverny

Monet: The Restless Vision

By Jackie Wullschläger

September 2022 Issue

Tom Stammers

Making Modernism

If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present

By T J Clark

July 1995 Issue

Winston Fletcher

Sad Genius Who Missed His Children Dreadfully

Paul Gauguin: A Complete Life

By David Sweetman

April 1983 Issue

Nicholas Garland

Sophisticated Innocence

The World of Henri Rousseau

By Yann le Pichon

Balthus

By Stanislas Klossowski de Rola

Masterpieces from the Pompidou Centre

By Edward Lucie-Smith

April 2019 Issue

Robert Ferguson

Pen Portrait

So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch

By Karl Ove Knausgaard (Translated by Ingvild Burkey)

November 2018 Issue

Rosalind P Blakesley

Treasures of a Trailblazer

The Collector: The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces

By Natalya Semenova with André Delocque (Translated by Anthony Roberts)

October 2018 Issue

Michael Prodger

Hiroshige on His Mind

Japanese Prints: The Collection of Vincent van Gogh

By Chris Uhlenbeck, Louis van Tilborgh & Shigeru Oikawa

March 2018 Issue

Tom Stammers

Mixed Impressions

Renoir: An Intimate Biography

By Barbara Ehrlich White

December 1999 Issue

Lynn Barber

Out of the Snake Pit

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper

By John Richardson

August 1993 Issue

Patrick Taylor-Martin

Collecting Celebrities

Picasso and Dora: A Memoir

By James Lord

September 2016 Issue

Lucy Lethbridge

Last Light

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

By Ross King

October 1991 Issue

Patrick O’Connor

She Knew Them All

Great Artists in Close-up: Matisse, Picasso, Miró – As I Knew Them

By Rosamond Bernier

November 1990 Issue

Patrick O’Connor

What She Saw in Him

Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art

By Françoise Gilot

June 1990 Issue

Anne Clark Amor

Badly Soiled in the Struggle for Life

The Love of Many Things: A Life of Vincent Van Gogh

By David Sweetman

July 1988 Issue

Richard Dorment

A Monster Who Used Women

Picasso: Creator and Destroyer

By Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

December 2009 Issue

Michael Glover

Artistic Impressions

Vincent van Gogh: The Letters

By Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker (ed)

July 2008 Issue

Frances Spalding

Back in the Frame

Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, & Rodin

By Ruth Butler

August 2014 Issue

Alex Danchev

Band of Bohemians

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910

By Sue Roe