Holy smokes! This is how you write and design an extensive biography of a painter whose body of work is enormous. He was a world authority on Impressionism, and published catalogues of the works of Gauguin, Manet, and Monet. Daniel Wildenstein also edited the catalogues raisonnés of various 18th, 19th, and 20th century artists. He co-founded the Fondation Wildenstein in 1970 (it was renamed the Wildenstein Institute in 1984), and was a prime mover in many exhibitions of international repute. the magazine Arts from 1956-1962 and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts after 1963. He edited several international journals, e.g. From 1939 onwards, he was Director of the Wildenstein Galleries of New York, London, and Tokyo. The author: Daniel Wildenstein (1917-2001) was an art historian and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Paris). A visual representation of an extraordinary artistic career, that simultaenously brings to life the spirit of a whole era. The definitive Monet biography by Daniel Wildenstein, a leading authority on Impressionist painting and author of the catalogue raisonné of Monet's works, is lavishly illustrated with 572 reproductions and complementary photographic documents.
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