Ed. Prestel.

Sylvie Patry.

Edition 2010.

240 pages.

26,5 x 30 cm

Hardcover.

English edition.

Published to accompany a major exhibition, this book presents over one hundred celebrated paintings from the unparalleled collection of Paris's Musee d'Orsay. Focusing on the decades of 1900. These works offer a fresh assessment of seismic transitions in the European art world at the turn of the twentieth century that ushered in the birth of modern painting and produced lasting treasures of its own..