Word: ethusiasm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ethusiasm for impressionist paintings goes far beyond the auction rooms. French Critic François Mauriac puts it down to a nostalgic longing for times past. But the curator of Paris' Musée de l'Orangerie, where the recent U.S. loan show of French 19th century painting pulled 2,000 to 2,500 visitors daily, thinks the reason is even simpler: "People like to see pictures they understand...
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