Word: boudin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eugene Boudin, son of a sailor, the choice was simple: either go to sea or paint it. Boudin opted for the artist's path, and the world has been in his debt ever since. The poet Baudelaire was astounded. From Boudin's paintings, he wrote, it was possible to "guess the season, the hour and the wind." To Camille Corot, he was "the king of the skies." And in the 20th century, Georges Braque, looking back, said flatly: "Boudin invented the seashore...
...such attention never thought so well of himself. Born in 1824, he had spent his childhood at Le Havre, and when his early facility at drawing earned him a grant to study art in Paris, he chose instead to paint on his own and use the money for living. Boudin had discovered and nurtured the young Claude Monet, but he did not think that he himself had the "temperament" to become a great master. And so he preferred to do what pleased him. Unencumbered by academic training, he developed alone into a proto-impressionist, fascinated by the flow and flood...
...Epstein's widow gave six of his busts, including one of Somerset Maugham. Soon the Far Eastern gallery will put on display a distinguished collection of Han-dynasty pottery, on extended loan. Donald DeCoursey Harrington, a gas and oil investor living in Texas, has donated 47 paintings from Boudin to Vuillard that make the museum's survey of French art its most vital collection...
IMPRESSIONISTS-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. A wealth of French impressionist work in various media ranging from an 1860 Boudin to a 1920 Monet. Other familiar names: Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Cassatt, Fantin-Latour, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro and Van Gogh. Through...
...five years ago, he looked again, changed his mind, and pronounced him grandfather of abstract impressionism (a phrase for the softer side of abstract expressionism). To honor grandfather, the Modern last week opened a stunning, 119-landscape show that began with postcard-like seascapes in the manner of Boudin and ended with the wide, conflated color vistas Monet drew from the depths of his private water garden 50 miles from Paris in the last years before his death...