Impresionisté - Jejich životní příběhy – Roeová Sue (2025)

Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt – today these names are legends, and their paintings are among the most expensive in the world. But behind these dazzling canvases lay lives full of scandals, struggles, and passion. They were rebels who shocked the public with their paintings of laundresses, dancers, and spring gardens. They created during a time when Paris was undergoing a magnificent transformation under Baron Haussmann, experiencing changes as dramatic as their art.

Sue Roe takes us into the studios, cafes, and nightclubs where the revolution in art and personal life was born. Friendship mingled with rivalry, passions with tragedies, and successes with outright rejection. After the Franco-Prussian War, they struggled to get back on their feet, sticking together, arguing, laughing, and suffering.

This fascinating, intimate story reveals the Impressionists not only as geniuses with a brush in hand but also as lovers, outcasts, visionaries – and sinners who changed the history of art.