Word: courbets
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...artists whose characteristic style has become almost too familiar. Sāo Paulo has, for instance, several Renoir nudes in his well-known manner. But the eye-opener is the full-length Bather with Griffon, painted in 1870 when Renoir was still seeing through the eyes of his mentor Courbet. It depicts Renoir's first mistress, Lise Tréhot. No later Renoir nude was more lushly sensuous...
...Naples, or I wander through mountain villages in Yugoslavia and Italy looking for 'homemade' materials like Dalmatian felt or an Abruzzi velvet. Picasso loves velvet." Once Sapone delighted Picasso with a pair of cuffless, horizontally striped trousers. "I've always wanted them," said the master. "Courbet had a pair just like them...
...further inform his own way of seeing, Manet drew from all the enthusiasms and movements of his day, from the realism of Courbet to the clarity of the camera, from the sketches of Renaissance masters to Japanese prints. But though his natural allies were the impressionists, he refused to run with the renegades who were slightly younger, preferred instead to challenge the painting establishment on its own grounds-the official painting salons...
Color most small museums green with envy when it comes to purchasing costly masterpieces. With gaping holes in their collections, they are long on aspirations, short on funds. Such was the case when the Milwaukee Art Center's director, Tracy Atkinson, found a fine Gustave Courbet portrait. Milwaukee had nothing by the early 19th century French realist, but the not unreasonable price tag in New York's Knoedler Gallery read...
...goodbye to a good buy until an enterprising Milwaukee attorney, Roger Boerner, 37, formed a corporation called Art Appreciation, Inc., with 14 other enthusiasts. Pooling their shares, the corporation bought the Courbet to hold it until the museum can pay for it. Should the painting increase in its market value in the interim, the difference can also be deducted from income tax as a charitable contribution. Meanwhile, the painting will hang in the museum. Except, of course, for the times that shareholders in Art Appreciation, Inc., see fit to borrow it in turn in order to appreciate their masterpiece...