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...market thrives on revivals, and in recent years has seen everything from 17th century mannerists to Britain's Pre-Raphaelites brought back into vogue. But one group-the 19th century French Salon painters, including such luminaries as Cabanel, Meissonier, Bonnat, Baudry and Rochegrosse-has seemed beyond redemption. Until last week when, that is, half in jest, Paris' avant-garde Galerie Breteau dragged out 20 paintings by one of the most ac claimed academicians and popular artists of his time, a man whose very name was an epithet to the impressionists: William-Adolphe Bouguereau...
...Paris, where he studied for a while in the stiff, classical studio of Leon Bonnat, Toulouse-Lautrec's appalling ugliness not only kept him from his own class but left him uncomfortable in the presence of fellow artists. Only in the half-world of Parisian cafes and dance halls did the Vicomte feel at home. Of these, from 1885 to his death in 1901, Toulouse-Lautrec became the greatest delineator. Strumpets, vaudevillians and circus performers admired him for his talents, acid wit and title, but they did not call him M. le Vicomte, or even Henri. Because the paunchy...
...Raoul Dufy. In 1895, one of nine children of a bourgeois family in Havre, he first began to paint as relaxation from clerking in an importing firm. In 1900 he went to Paris, studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under pompous Père Léon Joseph Bonnat. In 1905, he saw for the first time Henri Matisse's canvas Luxe, calme et volupté. "Confronted by that picture," he said, "I understood all the new reasons for painting." He immediately joined the famed Matisse group (Derain, Braque, Rouault, Vlaminck, Friesz), became one of Matisse...
...Modern artists flayed as Ananiases: John W. Alexander, Alma-Tadema, Bakst, Blashfield, Bonnat, Allan Clark, Kenyon Cox, Daniel Chester French, Gerome, Laszlo, Manship, Mestrovic, Sargent, Lorado Taft, Zuloaga...
...support. The last picture he painted was in this year's Salon de la SociÉtÉ Nationale. Recently he was promoted from Officer to Commandeur of the Legion d'Honneur. Great painters struggled to carry him on their shoulders through the Grand Palais. G. C. Bonnat, Director of the École des Beaux Arts, made him Professor of Esthetics for life. Lemordant struggles...