Between 1870 and 1910 the burgeoning populations and hectic speed of life in London and Paris fascinated artists on both sides of the English Channel. French artists such as Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec pioneered new ways of representing city life, profoundly influencing many British artists.

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Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction by Anna Gruetzner Robins and Richard Thomson

MODERNITY, FIGURE, METROPOLIS:

IMPORTING THE NEW PAINTING TO BRITAIN IN THE 1870s

Richard Thomson

THE GREATEST ARTIST THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN

Anna Gruetzner Robins

EXPORTING STYLE AND DECADENCE: THE EXCHANGES OF THE 1890s

Richard Thomson

SICKERT AND THE PARIS ART WORLD

Anna Gruetzner Robins

Chronology

The L'Absinthe Controversy

Notes

Select Bibliography

Artists and Works in the Exhibition

Lenders and Credits

Index