Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, held at Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, March 13-June 22, 2014, Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, July 11-October 5, 2014, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014-January 11, 2015, Vancouver Art Gallery, February 7-May 18, 2015, and Princeton University Art Museum, September 12 2015-January 3, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301).
The collector: Reminiscences of a collector / Henry Pearlman ; The Pearlman Collection in context / Rachael Z. Delue ; Chronology / Allison Unruh -- The artists: Honoré Daumier and a new art-language / James Christen Steward ; Courbet's "unforgettable" Portrait of a young woman / Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu ; Manet's quarrel with impressionism / Bridget Alsdorf ; A deceptively simply still life by Pissarro / Cora Michael ; Alfred Sisley's portraits of place / Caroline Harris ; Posing problems : Degas's handling of the nude / Scott C. Allan ; Van Gogh's tarascon stagecoach : nostalgia for a vanishing past / Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu ; Cézanne, painting, and harmony / Matthew Simms ; Painting on drawing : Cézanne's watercolors / Matthew Simms ; Satire and spectacle in two paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec / Cora Michael ; Gauguin and the dream of the exotic / Alastair Wright ; Wilhelm Lehmbruck : a path for German sculpture not taken / Betsy Rosasco ; Modigliani, poet of the human face / Betsy Rosasco ; Chaïm Soutine : fracture, form, subject / Kelly Baum ; Jacques Lipchitz : sculpture as encounter / Allison Unruh ; "Your kind smile" : Oskar Kokoschka's portrait of Henry Pearlman / Betsy Rosasco -- Checklist of the exhibition