Word: bonnards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, it was another Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace of Corots. The thieves, said Director Mercedes Garberi, "displayed a very refined taste." Giovanni Spadolini, Italy's Minister of the Cultural Patrimony, was already in shock from the theft of two Piero della Francescas...
...Maurice Wertheim Collection of 38 paintings, drawings and sculptures from the School of Paris will be on display at the Fogg until the end of the summer. Matisse, Bonnard, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rousseau, Seurat, Van Gogh and Picasso are among the painters included in the collection. Sculpture by Maillol, Degas and Despiau will also be among the works on exhibit...
...bequest was considerable, but so is the acrimony it has since roused. In the past year, the Met has quietly sold or traded off 50 of the 211 paintings Adelaide de Groot willed to the museum on her death in 1967, including works by Rousseau, Modigliani, Picasso, Gris and Bonnard. The New York Times's persistent reporting of this, over the past five months, has taken on the character of a vendetta. Sometimes the Times seems to hint darkly at sins where there were no sins-or at most only dubious transactions. But the publicity has caused a violent...
...museum had swapped two more De Groot paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, for Becca, a sculpture by David Smith and a painting by California Artist Richard Diebenkorn. Later the Met disclosed that the swap had cost the Met not two but six works - another Gris, a Bonnard, a Picasso and a Renoir...
...Wing, 1905, is typical. It belongs to the sardonic world of absurd theater-a parody of a classical statue, failed Icarus with a broken arm and a wooden leg, brandishing his one frayed wing like a plucked and grumpy rooster. Other artists of Klee's time, a Bonnard or a Matisse, could and did summon up with a few brush strokes a whole universe of specific experiences-the golden, fuzzy weight of a peach, the glaze of china, the density and pink warmth of an odalisque's leg. Klee was not interested; he abstracted, and made ideograms. Botanical...