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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...
...thin slice of French Milquetoast in appearance, Bonnard fell into the celebrated company of Vuillard, Vallotton and Maillol. Gauguin was chief prophet, telling them to express what they saw in colors straight from the tube. If a shadow had a bluish look, said he, the painter should use pure ultramarine. A group called the Nabis, or prophets, gathered and asserted that the imitation of three dimensions was less vital than a blatant arrangement of lines and colors. That was art; the other was slavish copying. Bonnard became "the very Japanese Nabi" for his fascination with oriental asymmetry, ascending perspective...
...artists on display in Pittsburgh will be remembered longer than, say, Gaston La Touche, a 1907 winner, or 1947's Zoltan Sepeshy. But it is disconcerting to recall that in its time the Carnegie managed to omit from its internationals work by Cézanne, Modigliani, Demuth, Gauguin, Henri Rousseau, Mondrian, Juan Gris and Toulouse-Lautrec...
...Clive Bell, 83, British art critic and charter member of London's once celebrated Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals (others: John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Bell's sister-in-law Virginia Woolf), a vociferous champion of such post impressionists as Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin in the early 1900s when other Britons thought them horrid; of cancer; in London...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:27 p.m.). Lust for Life, M.G.M.'s 1956 biography of Vincent Van Gogh, with Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn as Gauguin. Color...