Impressionism
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 60 paintings, pastels and prints, and two sculptures by French Impressionists. This internationally significant collection includes magnificent oil and pastel scenes of Parisian life and leisure such as Edouard Manet’s ‘Women Drinking Beer’ and Edgar Degas’ ‘The Rehearsal’. Impressionist landscapes include ‘Vétheuil’ by Claude Monet, ‘The Bell Tower at Noisy-le-Roi, Autumn’ by Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro’s ‘Tuileries Garden’. The collection also includes landscapes by Paul Cézanne and Armand Guillaumin and portraits by Auguste Renoir and Mary Cassatt. Most of the works were gifted to the city by two Glasgow collectors – William McInnes and Sir William Burrell, both of whom had been introduced to the works of the Impressionist artists by Glasgow dealer Alexander Reid. The Impressionists usually worked out-of-doors and were fascinated by the changing seasons and weather conditions; the artists painted directly on to the canvas using small, comma-like brushstrokes and juxtaposed touches of pure colour which gave their canvases an appearance of lightness and brightness.
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