The Private Lives of the Impressionists

“Roe constructs a penetrating group portrait…scintillatingly detailed and empathic.” - Booklist (starred review)

“Meticulously researched and vividly written…a comprehensive and revealing group portrait.” - Publishers Weekly

“THE PRIVATE LIVES OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS belongs not on the cocktail table…but on the bookshelf…a wonderful read, emotionally stirring and beautifully written.” - Christian Science Monitor

“Wonderful…Roe has a lively writing style and does a good job of delineating the personalities of each artist.” - Providence Journal

“Anyone who has ever lost themselves in Monet’s color-saturated gardens or swooned over Degas’s dancers will enjoy this revealing group portrait of the artists who founded the Impressionist movement….for the armchair dilettante, as well as the art-history student, this is lively, required reading.” - People

“The title suggests titillation and does not disappoint…Intelligent and well-crafted portraits of some of history’s most intriguing geniuses.” - Kirkus Starred Review

“Widely researched…[Roe] has a neat, light touch.” - Tom Rosenthal, Independent on Sunday

“Exceptionally detailed and thoroughly researched….Roe has done an admirable job of unearthing…countless…source materials.” - San Francisco Chronicle

“Charming… a decidedly readable work that should engage lay readers and spur undergraduates to conduct authentic research of their own.” - Library Journal

“The pleasure in reading Sue Roe’s The Private Lives of the Impressionists comes from forgetting the ways in which we usually think of these artists…What stands out finally is the perseverance of these artists; amid all the pressures, they kept learning from and inspiring one another.” - Boston Globe

“An illuminating insight into the lives of aesthetic revolutionaries” - Daily Telegraph (London)

“Vivid, superbly researched…Sue Roe transports us back to their Paris” - Daily Mail (London)

“Roe synthesizes the welath of published…work on half a dozen artists into a coherent narrative of kith and kinship” - Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian

“In her vivid, superbly researched book, Sue Roe transports us back to their Paris…all blazing with creative passion… .To read Roe’s book is to be filled with a longing to have experienced the vibrancy and heady whiff of cultural rebellion and artistic anarchy that ran riot in revolutionary Paris. It leaves you absolutely determined to visit art exhibitions at every opportunity and gaze at the familiar works with renewed pleasure.” - Daily Mail (London)

“An entertaining, informative read…this [is a] wonderfully written biography.” - The Bookseller

“A compelling subject: Sue Roe’s book does it justice and is a pleasure to read.” - Henrietta Garnett, Literary Review

Sue Roe is the author of several books, including a widely praised biography of the artist Gwen John. She lives and teaches in Brighton, England.

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