Word: corots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same day that Hitler marched into what remained of France, Manhattan art lovers marched into the Wildenstein Galleries to see the biggest exhibition of France's famed Painter Camille Corot ever held in the U.S. Arranged for the benefit of the Salvation Army War Fund under the somewhat ironic title, The Serene World of Corot, the show filled two large galleries and a smaller room, overflowed into a corridor. Included were 74 paintings, eleven drawings and etchings, nine autographies and several personal souvenirs. More than half the paintings, borrowed from private collections, had never appeared in public before...
Souto was born in 1902 in the northwest Spanish town of Pontevedra (pop. 28,755). His father, a painter of Corot-like landscapes, was also a magistrate and enough of an Anglophile to name his son Arturo, after King Arthur of the Round Table. Taught painting by his father, at 21 he went to Paris, where he studied, haunted the galleries, became a fervent admirer of Delacroix and Rouault. He decided that the modernistic Ecole de Paris was not for him. Said he: "A painting, for me, must be based on human emotion. It is a deep experience...
...these standards are pre-supposed for the purpose of distinguishing more clearly between what is genuine and what is not. This may lead one to believe that Raphael for example, never produced a poorly executed painting, or that Constable never failed to gain his desired effect, or again, that Corot was always successful in the creation of his shimmering landscapes. It should be understood that even the greatest artists must, at some time, have produced paintings which were badly done and which consequently stand a chance of being mistakenly branded as counterfeit...
Genuine paintings from the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries are shown side by side with their respective counterfeits. Examples include pieces by Bellini, Raphael, Constable, Corot, Guardi, Ingres, and Durer. Egyptian, Greek, and Italian Renaissance sculpture, together with Chinese and Aztec figures in stone, complete the main body of the exhibit. Forgetting the line of demarcation which can be drawn between the false art and the true, it can be said that many of the examples shown are products of great craftsmanship and skill. The counterfeit Raphael as well as the Constable indicates that the forger can often be placed...
Among the great artists whose works are shown both in the original and in counterfeit are Albrecht Durer, Corot, Ingres, Guardi, Bellini, and Constable. Also exhibited are originals and forgeries of Chinese bronze vessels and various Chinese jade objects, Persian miniatures, Egyptian sculptured heads, and early Greek terracotta figuriries...