October 2024 Issue Michael Prodger Rebel Painters Paris in Ruins: The Siege, the Commune and the Birth of Impressionism By Sebastian Smee LR
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
July 1995 Issue Winston Fletcher Sad Genius Who Missed His Children Dreadfully Paul Gauguin: A Complete Life By David Sweetman 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
December 1999 Issue Lynn Barber Out of the Snake Pit The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper By John Richardson LR
August 1993 Issue Patrick Taylor-Martin Collecting Celebrities Picasso and Dora: A Memoir By James Lord LR
September 2016 Issue Lucy Lethbridge Last Light Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies By Ross King LR
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 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
July 1988 Issue Richard Dorment A Monster Who Used Women Picasso: Creator and Destroyer By Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington 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
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