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Twin Peaks

Matisse Picasso

Catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Cowling, John Golding, Anne Baldassari, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, John Elderfield, and Kirk Varnedoe

March 27, 2003 issue

The Road to Minimalism

The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist

by Alex Potts

March 28, 2002 issue

Space Men

Paths to the Absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still

John Golding

April 26, 2001 issue

The New Painting

Origins of Impressionism 27, 1994-January 8, 1995

an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September

Origins of Impressionism

catalog of the exhibition by Gary Tinterow and Henri Loyrette

November 17, 1994 issue

Madonna in Distress

October 6, 1994 issue

Writing on Rothko

February 17, 1994 issue

The Agonies of Success

Mark Rothko: A Biography

by James E.B. Breslin

December 2, 1993 issue

Letter

Sam Hunter

Writing on Rothko

February 17, 1994 issue

Letter

James E.B. Breslin

Writing on Rothko

February 17, 1994 issue

Passions of Matisse

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective 1992–January 12, 1993

an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York September 24,

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective

catalog of the exhibition by John Elderfield

Collecting Matisse

by Albert Kostenevich and Natalia Semenova

November 5, 1992 issue

The Alchemist

Anselm Kiefer

by Mark Rosenthal

The Books of Anselm Kiefer, 1969-1990

edited by Götz Adriani, translated by Bruni Mayor

Anselm Kiefer: The High Priestess

foreword by Anne Seymour, essay by Armin Zweite

Anselm Kiefer: Lilith

essay by Doreet LeVitte Harten

Anselm Kiefer: Jason

essay by John Hutchinson

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February 13, 1992 issue

The Enigma of Georges Seurat

“He was so intensely secretive that until just a few days before his death even his family and closest friends did not know that he had set up a household with one of his models and that they had a year-old son.”

Seurat: 1859–1891 24, 1991–January 12, 1992

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York September

Seurat: 1859–1891

catalog of the exhibition by Robert L. Herbert, with contributions by Françoise Cachin and Anne Distel and Susan Alyson Stein and Gary Tinterow

Seurat

by Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, translated by Jean-Marie Clarke

Seurat at Gravelines: The Last Landscapes

by Ellen Wardwell Lee

Paul Signac and Color in Neo-Impressionism, including the first English edition of 'From Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism' by Paul Signac

by Floyd Ratliff, Signac text translated by Willa Silverman

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November 7, 1991 issue

Taming the Beasts

The Fauve Landscape: Matisse, Derain, Braque, and Their Circle, 1904-1908 October 4–December 30, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 19–May 5, 1991; and The Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 10–September 1, 1991

an exhibition at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,

The Fauve Landscape

catalog of the exhibition by Judi Freeman, with contributions by Roger Benjamin and James D. Herbert and John Klein and Alvin Martin

April 25, 1991 issue

Invader

A Life of Picasso Volume 1: 1881–1906

by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully

March 28, 1991 issue

Monet’s Way

Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings 29; The Art Institute of Chicago, May 19–August 12, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 7–December 9

An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 7–April

Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings

catalog of the exhibition by Paul Hayes Tucker

Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

edited by Richard Kendall

Impressions of Giverny: Monet's World

by Charles Weckler

Monet's Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet

by Claire Joyes

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May 17, 1990 issue