Word: bonheur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to print such monstrosities as Clyfford Still's Red and Black and Okada's Dynasty and call it art ? They are nothing but nightmares. Give me a Corot or a Bonheur. Their trees and horses look like trees and horses...
...fakes stay on the near side of the law by being careful not to state in so many words that the pictures are authentic. But recently a Los Angeles dealer named Roy Goldenberg got careless, advertised five patent fakes as being the works of Degas, Manet, Dufy and Rosa Bonheur...
...even a good job. All he had was genius. But at 18, Henri Beyle was the only one who knew it, and not even he could be sure. He had just left his native Grenoble on what was to become a lifelong journey devoted to la chasse au bonheur-the pursuit of happiness-and the first stop was Milan, where young Beyle served as a sublieutenant in Napoleon's army of occupation. Ambitious, hot-blooded Henri knew exactly what he wanted to be: "the successor of Molière" and "a seducer of women...
...well (the customers appreciated his "good breeding") that he might have remained a bank clerk forever, had not a female employee played tag with his trusting, spaniel-like affections. Edmond began to gambol in the stock market, and soon became wealthy. He bought a painting by Rosa Bonheur called Sheepdog Pursuing a Sheep and Woman with Dog by Matisse...
...Cross was a plump man who wore rimless spectacles, a chesterfield and a walrus mustache. He was also mighty adventurous. Born in upper New York State in 1837, he twice ran away with circuses, and at 16 made his way to Paris, where he learned animal painting from Rosa Bonheur. On his return, he went west with a circus, painting the animals and developing an interest in Indian life. Later he decorated circus wagons for P. T. Barnum, finally decided his life was too tame and set forth in search of savages...