Word: belongâ
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...canvases, in all their lambent color and twisting, linear energies, but also the eclectic products of a tonal impressionist like Jules Bastien-Lepage, with his soulful peasant girls in burlap, what can it mean? To what imaginable modernist context do the many style rétro canvases in this show belong???Giovanni Boldini's portrait of Mme. Max, for instance, or Albert Maignan's Passage of Fortune, 1895, with its gauze-veiled figure of Lady Luck bumping on her wheel down the steps of the Paris Bourse? In such respects, the show will do much to replace the "heroic" image...
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