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...paintings, prints and drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, after an earlier run at London's Hayward Gallery, rounds off the great series of overviews of 19th century French artists given us by French, American and English museums over the past 15 years. Every one of these -- Manet, Courbet, Cezanne, Seurat, Monet, even the disappointing Renoir -- has altered the way one thinks about the achievements of French art and deeply revised one's view of the individual painters. The Toulouse-Lautrec show, curated by an English art historian, Richard Thomson, and two French ones, Claire Freches-Thory and Anne Roquebert...
...historic events in the life of the modern museum: the collaboration between U.S. institutions and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux on a series of retrospectives of the great French artists of the 19th century. Edouard Manet in 1983; Vincent van Gogh in 1984 and 1986; Paul Gauguin, Gustave Courbet and Edgar Degas in 1988; Claude Monet in 1990 -- all these, done at the highest pitch of curatorial skill, have redefined the School of Paris...
...from a trip to Europe) go far beyond the self-conscious poeticism that infests so much of Ryder's work. They are diminutive in size but large in scale. Thick darkness and eerie light turn in the sky; the sea heaves, scattered with moon flakes and endowed with a Courbet-like solidity. "My soul, like to a ship in a black storm,/ Is driven, I know not whither" -- Vittoria's dying words in John Webster's Jacobean tragedy The White Devil seem to fit this recurrent dream of Ryder's coastal childhood, the boat scudding...
...illusion of a radical break today? Not likely. Precisely because the 19th century (except for impressionism and its consequences) was once shunned, for the past 20 years it has been the curator's mother lode. This new curiosity radiates not only from grand exhibitions like those of Degas and Courbet, but also from others more modest in size, like "The Romantic Spirit: German Drawings, 1780-1850," which is on view at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City through...
...character and genius of the flamboyant, narcissistic and defiant French painter Gustave Courbet are captured in a rich new retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum...