The Post-Impressionists (Phaidon)

To the Post-Impressionists - chiefly Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat and Cezanne modern art owes an incalculable debt. In their works, mostly done in the last twenty years of the last century. lie in embryo the great artistic movements of the twentieth century. These artists and their disciples, impatient with the informality of their Impressionist contemporaries, experimented with formal design, extremes of colour and an emotional honesty of expression - experiments that all proved revolutionary.