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 LR
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 LR
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 LR
March 2018 Issue Tom Stammers Mixed Impressions Renoir: An Intimate Biography By Barbara Ehrlich White
September 2016 Issue Lucy Lethbridge Last Light Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies By Ross King LR
November 1990 Issue Patrick O’Connor What She Saw in Him Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art By Françoise Gilot LR
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 LR
December 2009 Issue Michael Glover Artistic Impressions Vincent van Gogh: The Letters By Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker (ed) LR
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 LR
August 2014 Issue Alex Danchev Band of Bohemians In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910 By Sue Roe LR
August 2014 Issue Brian Dillon Lost Soles A Shoe Story: Van Gogh, the Philosophers and the West By Lesley Chamberlain LR
December 2007 Issue John McEwen I am God, I am God A Life of Picasso: Volume III – The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 By John Richardson (with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully) LR
July 2006 Issue Henrietta Garnett A Palette of Painters The Private Lives of the Impressionists By Sue Roe LR
May 2006 Issue William Packer Star-Struck Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose By Elizabeth Cowling LR
April 2006 Issue Michael Prodger Brushes at Twenty Paces The Judgement of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and an Artistic Revolution By Ross King LR
April 2006 Issue Jane Rye The Studio in the South The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles By Martin Gayford LR
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