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1906 · 87491 — Paris: H. Floury 1906. Fine. H. Floury Paris 1906 20.50 x 27 cm relié First edition one of 100 copies on Japon the only deluxe issue. Navy blue half shagreen with slight color restoration spine with five raised bands abundantly framed in gilt blue watered silk flyleaves marbled endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers and spine preserved gilt top edge binding signed J. Querelle. A superb copy on japon of the first authoritative publications on the history of Impressionism and the first bibliophile edition centered around this movement. Illustrated edition with 6 original etchings by Pissarro Les Faneuses; Renoir Femme nue assise and Femme nue couchée; one of only three etchings ever made by Cézanne Portrait of Guillaumin; Armand Guillaumin Vue près de Saardam - the copy is complete with the additional etching by Renoir on bistre ‘Seated Nude Woman' reserved for copies on japon. The work also features a frontispiece rotogravure of Fantin-Latour's Atelier aux Batignolles. In addition to the six original etchings the book features 21 full-page plates including a colour rotogravure of Monet's famous Impression sunrise and no fewer than 105 reproductions of works and portraits of artists in the text. Théodore Duret paints here the great history of the movement he championed collected and theorized from its very beginnings. As early as 1878 he had published a small study that made him the first historian of these artists if not of the group itself just four years after their first exhibition at Nadar's studio. Twenty years after the last Impressionist exhibition Duret establishes the comprehensive story of this artistic revolution: ""For the early twentieth century and the decades to follow the history of Impressionism is Duret's 'The history of the Impressionist painters'."" Laura Iamurri. Renowned for its chronological accuracy - although in many cases Duret recalls events from his own memories - this work became a reference and was widely reprinted and translated London: Grant Richards 1910; Berlin: B. Cassirer 1909. Duret dedicates a monograph to each painter he mentions with the exception of Caillebotte and places Berthe Morisot in what he refers to as ""the core group of Impressionists."" Absent from his 1878 study Paul Cézanne now considered a post-Impressionist and Armand Guillaumin make their appearance here. A true art gallery on papier japon this ‘text of reference for generations of readers' Laura Iamurri was the first to find a legitimate place for Impressionism in French art history. Not in Carteret. Etchings by Renoir Delteil 12 14 15; Camille Pissarro Delteil 94/XII Cézanne Venturi 1159; Armand Guillaumin Armand Guillaumin 1841-1927 gravures et lithographies 1995 p. 41. H. Floury hardcover