Books by Sue Roe and Complete Book Reviews
Sue Roe, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (464p) ISBN 978-0-374-11317-9
British novelist, poet and critic Roe (Estella) offers a biography of the painter John (1876–1939), who focused on Whistler-like portraits and spent some time as mistress to the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Once undervalued because of...
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Sue Roe, Author . HarperCollins $29.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-06-054558-1
From Monet and Pissarro's first meeting in Paris in 1860 to art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel's influential 1886 Impressionist exhibition in New York City, the group known as the Impressionists—Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir,
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Sue Roe. Penguin Press, $29.95 (365p) ISBN 978-1-59420-495-1
Montmartre, the hillside district of northern Paris, lay at the heart of an emerging modernism at the turn of the 20th century, as aptly depicted in this new book by Roe (The Private Lives of the Impressionists). Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, André...
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Sue Roe. Penguin Press, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-101-98117-7
Roe (In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art) traces the birth and evolution of Surrealism in this colorful but overly detailed account, revealing how a group of disgruntled Paris artisans created a new movement and turned the
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