A selection of masterpieces from one of the most prestigious private collections in the world.

One of the most important private art collections in the world, the Emil B³hrle Collection occupies a prominent place in the museum-quality group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works that forms its core and which in this volume is represented by masterpieces by Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, CÚzanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and others.

The works, published in colour and accompanied by commentaries by authoritative art historians, illustrate the principles according to which B³hrle built his extraordinary collection: on the one hand, the desire to relate modern art with the highest results of European painting in previous centuries - of which the masterpieces by Canaletto, Strozzi, Delacroix and Corot are the spokesmen - on the other hand, the choice to document in an exhaustive way the path of the protagonists of modern art, such as Manet, Degas, Van Gogh and CÚzanne, whose phases of artistic p