Word: bonnards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bartender, who said they were "crazy" about art and wanted some masterpieces of their own. The damaged paintings: Renoir's Seated Nude, lent by the Chicago Art Institute and valued at $100,000, Picasso's Woman Ironing, lent by a Manhattan collector and valued at $100,000, Bonnard's Self-Portrait, from another Manhattan collector and valued at $25,000, and Gauguin's la Orana Maria, from the Metropolitan Museum. All four had been slashed, and two completely cut from their frames one to two inches from the edges. Shaken museum officials promised that expert restoration...
...Paris last week was an art show with a lofty label-"Masterpieces of the 20th Century"-and a thesis. Among the 114 canvases and twelve sculptures on display were major works by Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Marcel Duchamp and scores of lesser lights. The thesis: "Such cultural achievements are possible only in a climate of intellectual freedom...
...that "A hundred years from now, Gromaire will be considered one of the most representative painters of our period." That was faint praise, yet fair enough. Gromaire's art says little that has not been better expressed by older School-of-Paris artists-among them his two favorites, Bonnard and Matisse. But in a field crammed with slapdash imitations of the masters, Gromaire's paintings have an honest, craftsmanlike, and sometimes compelling ring...