Word: edouarde
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...19th century recedes into perspective, it becomes clear that the age was in every respect the equal of the great art epochs of the past and that among its greatest giants was Edouard Manet, one of the first artists to concern himself exclusively with modern times. "We laugh at Monsieur Manet," wrote Emile Zola 100 years ago. "It will be our sons who go into ecstasies over his canvases." Indeed, he is now ranked with Cezanne as one of the major precursors of 20th century painting. The problem is that his once scorned works are now so highly prized...
...cooking was on a par with painting, it was not necessarily first. At one memorable meal, prepared for Painter Edouard Vuillard and some close friends around 1897, Lautrec forced them away from the table after the cheese course and led them to the apartment of a friend. He pointed to a freshly painted Degas on the wall, exclaimed: "There is your dessert...
...many as 250 lieder. His friends used to play a kind of "Stump Artur" game in which they would call out titles?excerpts from symphonies, operas, Cole Porter scores?to see if he could play them. "Stumped Friends" would have been a better name for it. "Rubinstein," says Conductor Edouard van Remoortel, "is the only pianist you could wake up at midnight and ask to play any of the 38 major piano concertos...
...Belgium's Bank du Commerce by the Chase. In Paris, he ordered a $300,000 face-lifting for the Chase's 55-year-old branch on the Rue Cambon. "We'll look like the '60s instead of the '30s," exulted Paris General Manager Edouard Eller after his boss had left. "French customers will like that. It's the American image...
Contributing to the total sales of $4,141,600 for 136 works were record prices set for paintings by the Impressionist Edouard Manet and the post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin. Manet's 1866 portrait of a pipe-puffing man, The Smoker, brought $450,000. Gauguin's 1893 scene of a moon-goddess idol, Hma Marum, fetched $275,000 The highest price knocked down by a living artist was $78,000, for a 1949 marriage fantasy by Marc Chagall (TIME cover, July...