The New York Review of Books

The Greatest French Artist of His Century

December 22, 2011

Watteau: The Drawings an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 12–June 5, 2011

Watteau at the Wallace Collection an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London, March 12–June 5, 2011

‘Unlucky Jim’

April 7, 2011

The Born Rebel Artist

February 14, 2008

Gustave Courbet Catalog of the exhibition by Sylvain Amic, Kathryn Calley Galitz, Laurence des Cars, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Thomas Galifot, Michel Hilaire, Dominique Lobstein, Bruno Mottin, and Bertrand Tillier

The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu

L’Origine du monde: Histoire d’un tableau de Gustave Courbet by Thierry Savatier

Courbet by Linda Nochlin

In Braque’s Studio

June 14, 2007

Georges Braque: A Life by Alex Danchev

The Artist in Search of Himself

March 10, 2005

The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko

Always in Exile

September 25, 2003

Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera

Divide and Conquer

January 16, 2003

Barnett Newman Catalog of the exhibition edited by Ann Temkin, with essays by Ann Temkin and Richard Shiff, and contributions by Suzanne Penn and Melissa Ho

Renoir the Irregular

November 16, 2000

Nature’s Workshop: Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts by Robert L. Herbert

Simply Himself

May 14, 1998

Fernand Léger Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, May 29-September 29, 1997; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, October 28, 1997-January 12, 1998; Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 15-May 12, 1998. a retrospective exhibition at the Musée National d'Art Moderne,, Catalog of the New York exhibition by Carolyn Lanchner, with Jodi Hauptman, by Matthew Affron

Under Cézanne’s Spell

January 11, 1996

Cézanne 1995—January 7, 1996; Tate Gallery, London, February 8—April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 30—August 18, 1996 an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, September 25,, Catalog of the exhibition by Françoise Cachin, by Joseph J. Rishel

Cézanne: A Biography by John Rewald

Paul Cézanne: The Bathers by Mary Louise Krumrine

Lost Earth: A Life of Cézanne by Philip Callow

Cézanne by Richard Verdi

Cézanne by Philippe Dagen

Le Paradis de Cézanne by Philippe Sollers

Mysteries of Mondrian

June 22, 1995

Piet Mondrian: 1872–1944 Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 11–September 4, 1995; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 1, 1995–January 23, 1996 an exhibition at the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; The National

Piet Mondrian catalog of the exhibition by Yve-Alain Bois, by Joop Joosten, by Angelica Zander Rudenstine, by Hans Janssen

Piet Mondrian: The Amsterdam Years by Robert Welsh, by Boudewijn Bakker, by Marty Bax

Mondrian by John Milner

Mondrian: The Art of Destruction by Carel Blotkamp

Supreme Outsider

May 25, 1995

Sophisticated Peasant

December 16, 1993

Joan Miró 1993–January 11, 1994 an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 17,

Joan Miró catalog of the exhibition by Carolyn Lanchner

Miró by Jacques Dupin

Joan Miró: Campo de Estrellas Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

A toute épreuve by Paul Eluard, woodcuts by Joan Miró, Introduction by Anne Hyde Greet

Living Still Life

January 28, 1993

Juan Gris Press by Christopher Green, with contributions by Christian Derouet, by Karin von Maur

Juan Gris 18–November 29, 1992; the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, December 18, 1992–February 14, 1993; the Rijksmuseum Kröller–Müller, Otterlo, March 6–May 2, 1993 an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, September

Live Menu

January 14, 1993

Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Grand Palais, Paris by Jean Sutherland Boggs, with essays by Marie-Laure Bernadac, by Brigitte Léal. Catalog of the exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the

Picasso: Collected Writings edited and with an introduction by Marie-Laure Bernadac, by Christine Piot, preface by Michel Leiris

Cataloguing Malevich

May 16, 1991

Supreme Suprematist

January 17, 1991

Kazimir Malevich, 1878–1935 September–November, 1990; The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, November 28, 1900–January 13, 1991; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 7, 1991–March 24, 1991 an exhibition at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,

Kazimir Malevich, 1878–1935 catalog of the exhibition, edited by Jeanne D'Andrea

Two Who Made a Revolution

May 31, 1990

Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism 24, 1989, to January 6, 1990 an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City September

Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism catalog of the exhibition, by William Rubin

The Triumph of Picasso

July 21, 1988

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1988 an exhibition at the Musée Picasso, Paris, January 26-April 18,. Picasso Museum, Barcelona, May 10-June 14, 1988, Catalog of the exhibition by Hélène Seckel, by William Rubin. others

Le Dernier Picasso: 1953-1973 16, 1988 an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, February 17-May. Tate Gallery, London, as "Late Picasso," June 21-September 18, 1988, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac, by Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, by David Sylvester

Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

White Magic

February 4, 1988

Brancusi by Radu Varia

Brancusi by Pontus Hulten, by Natalia Dumitresco, by Alexandre Istrati

The Futurist Past

August 14, 1986

Futurismo & Futurismi October 12, 1986 catalog of an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, May 3 to, organized by Pontus Hulten

Picasso & Poetry

November 21, 1985

Góngora by Pablo Picasso, introduction by John Russell, poems translated by Alan S. Trueblood

The Golden Age

January 31, 1985

Matisse by Pierre Schneider, translated by Michael Taylor, by Bridget Strevens Romer

‘Crimes Against the Cubists’: An Exchange

October 13, 1983

The Eyes Have It

March 21, 1974

The Image in Form: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes edited by Richard Wollheim