After six decades of limited access to visitors, and a ban on colour reproduction, the Barnes Foundation, one of the world's most prestigious private art collections, presents this volume containing more than 100 masterpieces of modern French painting. The artists include Manet, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso and Matisse, and the illustrations are accompanied by texts and essays by a range of eminent scholars and curators.