Word: corot
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...Salon won more fame in later years with major retrospective shows of the works of Courbet and Gauguin (1906), Corot (1909), Pissarro (1911). Rodin (1919) and Renoir (1920). After the liberation of Paris, the Salon reopened in 1945 with a gigantic Picasso retrospective...
...Corot Was Ill." After nearly half a century at the work, Art Detective Schoeller can usually spot the flaws within minutes. He started out in 1905 as an assistant in a Paris gallery, and soon discovered that mere study was not enough; a true expert had to have "a sense" for fakes. One of the greatest connoisseurs he ever met was an uneducated genius who made his living running a brothel. In his spare time he hung questionable paintings on a clothesline in the house, invited Pupil Schoeller to find the fakes. "What!" he would scream when Schoeller made...
...small, brightly lighted Paris room, a group of connoisseurs intently studied a small canvas-a sunny Italian seascape dotted with boats and fishermen. After a second, a hawk-eyed old man in the center of the group shook his head. "False," he growled. "It was never executed by Corot. Take it away." Paris' celebrated art expert, 73-year-old Andre Schoeller, had just pronounced judgment on one more fake in the outbreak of art frauds that has plagued Paris since...
Schoeller learned to trust his senses, and backed them up with hard study. Today, he has huge cardboard files crammed with information on his specialty, the 19th century masters. He knows the painters' lives almost as well as his own: "You must be able to say, 'Corot was ill in bed that winter and did no painting. He was at Cannes on such a date-hence the canvas marked "Corot, Paris" is false...
...small office last week, André Schoeller ruled a Corot, a Monet and a Renoir all frauds. A wealthy woman had brought him her latest purchase: 2,000,000 francs' worth of "genuine old masters," likewise all frauds. And he reported to a group of heirs, who supposed they had a fortune in Van Goghs and Cézannes: "Not a single genuine Cézanne or Van Gogh in the lot." But he was able to offer a consolation: he ruled them "all good examples of the French school of the 19th century." Thanks to the prestige...