Impressionists: selected letters with sketches and sketches

Today it is difficult to imagine a person who would not like the painting of Degas, Monet, Sisleya, Renoir or Pissarro. Meanwhile, during life they were called crazy, ridiculous, simply not able to draw. Their paintings were criticized for negligence and meaninglessness, refused to exhibit in salons. Milisted by the desire to capture the life itself as an endless series of impressions, they not only became revolutionaries in painting, but also completely turned out to be deprived of earnings of people.
The collection included the chosen letters of the masters of impressionism. In them, masters in need of support share their impressions of art and a humiliating deprivation time. The letters are surrounded by the most famous works of the masters, as well as sketches and sketches for these paintings, which allows the reader to fully feel the genius of the impressionists and understand how these virtuoso of the brush thought and felt