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...preparation for this summer's Masterpiece Exhibition, he Painting Lab is cleaning a Courbet on loan. "By removing old, yellowed varnish," Beale said, the painting "not only looks fresher but the perspective actually changes a little." But the painting will also need structural repairs. For example, the work suffers from what Beale, in all seriousness, called "a cleavage here in the middle" where the paint is cracking and in danger of flaking off. A few tiny white flecks illustrate where this process has already occurred...
Millet was what Gustave Courbet pretended to be: the son of peasants. Born in 1814, he spent most of his life in rural France. He was able to perceive the land and the labor it exacted from men as substance and process, not as a sight for a city-dwelling impressionist on an outing. Millet's The Plain of Chailly, 1862, was unlike virtually every previous landscape in Western art. It is neither a bird's-eye "world view" in the fashion of Bruegel nor a meditation on cosmic energy as in Turner. It is not "romantic." Especially...
...comes without its price. In this case, the price was the inclusion of 13 Russian paintings from Leningrad's State Russian Museum. They are something of a revelation. Alexander Ivanov's Water and Rocks Near Palazzuola, painted in the early 1850s, is a strongly constructed landscape that Courbet could have admired...
Died. André Dunoyer de Segonzac, 90, well-known French painter and printmaker; of bronchitis; in Paris. Inspired by Corot and Courbet, the young aristocrat shunned the early 1900s revolutionary experiments of his Fauvist and Cubist Parisian friends and bought a house in the south of France, where he painted gentle, Cézannesque still lifes and landscapes glimmering with the unique southern light. Retaining and refining his style throughout his lifetime, Segonzac won and kept the respect of artists, critics and collectors...
...Picasso's lawyer announced that his widow and his son Paulo would respect a wish expressed by Picasso and donate the artist's valuable personal collection of great painters to the Louvre. Picasso jokingly referred to the collection, which includes 800 to 1,000 works by Corot, Courbet, Cézanne, Braque, Matisse and others, as "bric-a-brac," but Prime Minister Pierre Messmer quickly accepted the priceless gift on behalf of France...