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...abstractions which looked like the products of a well-sterilized laboratory. Enclosed in fat, silvered frames, they hung in an atmosphere of pearl-grey carpets and Bach suites dripping from hidden amplifiers. Sweeney changed all that. He found the storerooms filled with first-rate works by modern Europeans from Bonnard to Vuillard, hung them in brilliantly arranged rotating shows. The Guggenheim's walls are now sparkling white; there are few distracting frames and the pictures hang at eye level, have space enough to strike the viewer with maximum effect. With these reforms-and acquisitions such...
André Girard studied with two French masters, Georges Rouault and Pierre Bonnard, and his glowing darks and sparkling lights show the influence of both. Girard, who has experimented with many new techniques of stained-glass design, melted bits of colored glass onto clear panes in making his Sermon from the Boat. Rich in color and texture, the finished window seems to radiate devotion...
...women gave little gasps of surprise when they saw the garland of new-fangled electric lamps decorating the entrance to the Palais' cellar. When they went down the stairs, they and their escorts found more reason for excitement. On the basement walls hung 990 pictures: oils by Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet and Fėlix Vallotton, a whole wallful of paintings by Paul Gauguin, only six months dead in his Pacific island paradise...
...still play like that." Grieg asked her to play the Peer Gynt Suite with him. Ibsen presented her with his autographed portrait. Mallarme wrote poems to her. Verlaine read her his verse and wept. Toulouse Lautrec painted her picture, then tickled the soles of her feet with his brush. Bonnard did murals for her salon. Picasso made her godmother to his first child. Proust called her beautiful. Maillol asked her to pose for sculpture. "In you the image of immortality seems achieved," he wrote her. "There is nothing left but to copy it." Renoir painted seven portraits of her, often...
Critics were agreed on Gubler's genius. Said one: "The daring of a Picasso and the colors of a Bonnard." Said a German critic: "Most of the younger Swiss artists behave like goldfish in a sheltered pond . . . Gubler stands out among these goldfish like a pike." A visitor, who had flown from Paris to see the show, more aptly compared Gubler to a salmon that has produced remarkably after a terrific uphill climb...