Japan's Love for Impressionism: From Monet to Renoir. This book presents amazing quality French Impressionist art held in Japanese collections, and includes some of the major works of the Impressionist movement. A selection of exquisite works from these Japanese museums now returns exclusively to Europe. At the heart of the exhibition and the book are masterpieces by French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists, among them Monet, Manet, C��zanne, Gauguin, Bonnard, Pissarro, Renoir, Signac, Sisley, and van Gogh. Their paintings are complemented by a selection of works by Japanese artists from the period before 1920 that laid the foundation for modern, Western-inspired Japanese art. Together, they tell the story of the interaction and two-way artistic influence between Europe and Japan from a new perspective.