Word: daumiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baudelaire's imagination, sensuality had tragic grandeur. He lived with a fat mulatto and wrote the most magnificent French verse since Racine. He was also the only art critic of his day who recognized the greatness of Daumier. He died, broken by drink and opium, in 1867. Though not precisely a Bible to modern man, the Flowers of Evil has been abundantly profaned by illustrators who interpreted it as high-class pornography...
...Hottentot, but even I feel justified in crying out in painful protest against the flatulent, inane farce parading in Saturday's Crimson under the pretentious rubric of "Collections and Critiques." I don't mean farce; I mean tragedy. For Fogg's current exhibition of modern French art--Degas, Daumier, Renoir, Picasso--would stir the most rudimentary, untutored aesthetic consciousness. Yet it could not evoke in your criticism even the most backneyed cliches of our introductory fine arts courses, which, after all, whether trite or significant, do at least say and mean something. How intriguing, how illuminating, how it enhances...
...painting; and its sympathetic account of the artist's crotchety life cleared the air of much second-rate chatter. Biographer Mack's new subject is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa,* who died of drink and exhaustion in 1901, aged 36, the greatest French master of line between Daumier and Picasso...
...generously enough to admit a painting of industrial buildings by Classicist Charles Sheeler. Even more varied was a display of 180 prints and drawings, from the 15th Century to the present, from which visitors could get an idea of how differently Labor looked to Pieter Bruegel, to Honoré Daumier, to James A. McNeill Whistler...
When the Pennsylvania Museum of Art had its big Daumier show last autumn (TIME, Nov. 8), 14 of the largest and most valuable oils exhibited were listed as the property of "An Anonymous Lender." Few Philadelphians knew that after the exhibitions these paintings went right back into the Museum's storage rooms as part of a $1,000,000 collection of paintings shipped from Paris last year to be held there on "indefinite loan." The lender, still anonymous, is not the only European collector who has recently found it expedient to store his art elsewhere. Last week the Pennsylvania...