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...worth anything from $50 million to $100 million. The value of his whole estate has been estimated at around $750 million. His income is immense. Between Jan. 5, 1969 and Feb. 2, 1970, he produced 167 oils and 45 drawings, which were shown in the Papal Palace at Avignon the following summer. Since (according...
...studio was squalid in those days of 1907, the painting in it, Les Démoiselles d'Avignon (16), struck Picasso's fellow artists as little short of mad. André Derain feared it presaged Picasso's suicide, and its hacked dislocation alarmed Braque, who compared the performance to "someone drinking gasoline and spitting fire." Perhaps it is too simple to say that Cubism "came out of" Demoiselles, for the raggedness, fury and inconsistencies of the canvas were alien to the spirit of calm inquiry that afterward pervaded Cubist painting. But Demoiselles was so extreme that...
...Agile-1905; 8. The Family of Saltimbanques-1905; 9. Boy with a Pipe-1905; 10. Boy Leading a Horse-1905-06; 11. La Fillette à la Boule-1905; 12. Standing Female Nude- 1906; 13. Self-Portrait-1906; 14. Portrait of Gertrude Stein -1906; 15. Study for Demoiselles d'Avignon...
...CUBIST DECADE: 16. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon-1907; 17. Bread and Compotier with Fruit on a Table-1908; 18. After the Ball-1908; 19. Still Life with Liqueur Bottle-1909; 20. Woman with Pears-1909; 21. Portrait of Ambroise Vollard-1909-10; 22. Le Mandoliniste-1911; 23. Ma Jolie-1911-12; 24. Le Torero, Ceret-1911; 25. Still Life with Chair Caning-1912; 26. Still Life-1912; 27. La Suze-1912-13; 28. Still Life with Fruit, Glass, Knife and Newspaper-1914; 29. Green Still Life-1914; 30. Harlequin-1915; 31. Three Musicians...
...because it made us possible. But Monet did not labor for the sake of Philip Guston or Sam Francis. His actual greatness resides in the way in which he marked, and then transcended, his own cultural perimeter. He provoked Impressionism rather as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon provoked Cubism; and the crucial encounter here was with an older painter, Eugene-Louis Boudin, whom he met somewhere around...