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Mama Was Watchful. Daughter of a wealthy government official and distantly related to France's 18th century Jean Fragonard, Berthe took up drawing at 16 merely as a social grace. Mama Morisot traipsed along on visits to her instructor's studio, to keep a watchful eye on the proceedings. Berthe was clumsy at first, but within three years she was studying with Corot, learning to paint landscapes in his fashion...
...madame," the auctioneer cautioned sharply. "We catch them all." In Paris' jammed Galerie Charpentier last week, 1,500 people watched breathlessly as the finest collection in years went under the hammer. The merest raising of a pencil could jump the price 100,000 francs. The first painting was Fragonard's The Dreamer, in five minutes it was sold for 3,100,000 francs (about $9,000). Then, one by one, 63 paintings and drawings and six sculptures from the Cognacq collection went to new owners. The sales total three hours later: 302 million francs, more than...
France's wealthiest dealers and collectors battled it out. Renoir's Young Girl with Flowers in Her Hat went for $64,000, Van Gogh's The Thistles for $47,000, Fragonard's The Girl with the Dogs for $30,000. The prize piece: Cézanne's simple still life, Apples and Biscuits. When the auctioneer finally banged down his hammer, a French leadmine millionaire wrote out a check for 33 million francs ($94,281), the highest auction price ever paid for a Cézanne...
...help envying his commercial success. They scoff at his preference for pretty and elegant subjects, but have to admit, gritting their teeth, that Vertes (rhymes with bear says) draws and paints very prettily and elegantly indeed. They call him superficial, forget that such masters as Fragonard were...
Naked Royalty. In art, it was a period dominated by elegance and smugness. His contemporaries, Guardi in Italy, Fragonard in France and Gainsborough in England, all devoted 'themselves to the depiction of pomp and pleasure. Goya did, too, but he painted pompous fools and smirking harlots. He was as harsh and realistic a portraitist as ever lived (and sometimes a surprisingly offhand one), but that did not prevent him from becoming Madrid's court painter. Goya's paintings of the royal family were much admired, for no one dared admit that he showed them naked...