By Bryony Dawkes and Bethany McIntyre; essays by Oliver Fairclough, Paul Greenhalgh, and Colin B. Bailey
Published in 2009 by the AFA in association with Hudson Hills Press
176 pages, 103 illus. (91 in color), 9 x 10 in.
Cloth • ISBN 978-1-55595-299-0 • $42.00 (AFA)

National Museum Wales counts among its treasures the Davies Collection, an extraordinary group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings that is remarkable for its breadth and quality. Assembled between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, the collection is exceptionally strong in Realist and Impressionist works and includes masterpieces by, among others, Cézanne, Daumier, Manet, Millet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Van Gogh. This fully illustrated catalogue traces the development of modern art from the Romantic naturalism of Turner to the Post-Impressionism of Cézanne, as viewed through the lens of the Davis sisters' remarkable collection.

In addition to entries on each work by Bryony Dawkes and Bethany McIntyre of National Museum Wales, the catalogue includes an essay on the Davies sisters and the evolution of their collection by Guest Curator Oliver Fairclough; an essay on collecting French art in Britain during the 19th and early 20th centuries by Paul Greenhalgh, Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; and an essay on Renoir’s impressionist masterpiece La Parisienne by Colin B. Bailey, Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection.