Word: bonnards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Settled in Washington and married to a fellow art enthusiast, Marjorie Acker, he was soon buying selectively throughout the ages, from an El Greco to a classic Renoir such as Luncheon of the Boating Party, picked up in 1923 for an adventurous $125,000. Bonnard became a special love (he owned 26). As his collection grew (it totaled some 2,000 paintings when he died), the Phillipses in 1930 were crowded out of their home, but they maintained it as a museum with its Oriental rugs, comfortable chairs and ashtrays, and no cordoned-off areas or guards...
...liquid pastel forms from Pop Artist James Rosenquist's more explicit Fruit Salad. Larry Poons's placement of blue spots on a field of gold in Aqua Regia produces a Mexican-jumping-bean effect of afterimage dots; yet he has no more corner on optical effects than Bonnard, whom one young first-nighter enjoyed as "a guy who used phosphorescent, Day-glo paint before the stuff was invented or used...
...closets." But many of her choicest treasures were kept in her Ile St. Louis flat in Paris (see color pages). On the sales' opening day, a La Fresnaye cubist painting of garden tools brought $100,000. Chagall's Lovers and the Moon fetched $24,000, and the Bonnard landscape (see overleaf) sold...
...their homes in New York, Washington, Cape Cod and Virginia to fill twelve rooms in the National Gallery with 246 art works. No other U.S. family could have brought out from private stock such a handsome salute, ranging over 100 years of French painting from a Corot to a Bonnard. As they went on view last week, Mellon was delighted: "I haven't seen all the pieces together this way," he said. "I think they help make a nice birthday party...
...present, is a vibrant testimony to the pleasure that the painter found in contemplating his father's garden outside Paris. Says Art Historian John Rewald: "Seurat welcomed the opportunity for small studies on the play of light over shrubbery or fields. To them he gave an incredible delicacy." Bonnard grew old joyously contemplating his own garden at Le Cannet above the shores of the Mediterranean, pursuing an ever more jubilant orchestration of clear blue skies and yellow blooms. Pissarro, the first of the impressionists to abandon Paris for the country, remained the most earthy...