Impressionism and the Inventions of Color – from Sotheby’s

“Think of Impressionism and our minds turn to light. We marvel at the evaporative splendour of Claude Monet’s weightless water lilies and how Georges Seurat succeeded in sieving sunsets down to a dazzle of shimmering dots. Whether we think first of the glistering shadows of Camille Pissarro’s immaculate snowscapes or of the restless radiance of…