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...magisterial Homage to Thomas Eakins exemplifies the boldness, not to say the rashness, with which Soyer has reached into the past for forms that have faded away after a century or more of desuetude. His picture is modeled after Hommage à Delacroix by Henri Fantin-Latour, who in 1864 lined up seven artists, including Manet and Whistler, and three writers, including Baudelaire, who had been Delacroix's admirers. Fantin-Latour then judiciously posed them beside a portrait of the great French Romantic painter. The composition is as simple as the relationships. Soyer, on the other hand, chose a much...
...Honore Daumier. Moreover, there is no way of drawing a hard-and-fast line between the realist enterprise and that of the impressionists. Although artists like Degas and Manet are represented, and although there are some exquisite paintings by figures on the edge of the impressionist group-like Henri Fantin-Latour, whose portrait of his two sisters embroidering and reading is one of the most affecting icons of intimacy in all 19th century art-one wishes the connections between the two had been made somewhat more explicit, even at the risk of covering familiar ground again...
Three Was Wow. During the next five years, the pair underwent what she recalls as "a painting bath." Says she: "There wasn't a show we missed, whether of Pollock or Fantin-Latour. We checked catalogues. One check meant we liked it. Two checks was pretty good. Three was wow! This seems the opposite of that lofty beautiful experience that art is supposed to be. Every painting is supposed to be a valid expression and interesting. But the truth is some work and some don't. That happens with all painters in every...
Biographer as Surgeon. Soyer's group portrait is essentially a salute to the past, an evocation of his fellow realists and their combined debt to Eakins as the greatest painter in the American realist tradition. Soyer unabashedly searched the past for precedent, modeled his composition on Fantin-Latour's 1864 Homage to Delacroix. He prepared himself by making separate portraits of each figure from life, except for the late Reginald Marsh, whom Soyer had painted 24 years earlier; he simply copied the old portrait into the final 6-ft. 8-in. by 7-ft. 4-in. canvas...
IMPRESSIONISTS-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. A wealth of French impressionist work in various media ranging from an 1860 Boudin to a 1920 Monet. Other familiar names: Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Cassatt, Fantin-Latour, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro and Van Gogh. Through...