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Though they were steadily ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, these days astonishing sums are paid for their paintings. Their dazzling works are familiar to even essentially the most casual art lovers—but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people?
Sue Roe’s colorful, full of life, poignant, and superbly researched biography, The Private Lives of the Impressionists, follows an ordinary group of artists into their Paris studios, down the agricultural lanes of Montmartre, and into the rowdy riverside bars of a city undergoing monumental change. Vivid and unforgettable, it casts a brilliant, revealing light in this unparalleled society of genius colleagues who lived and worked together for two decades and transformed the art world endlessly with their breathtaking depictions of strange life.