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...vision has proved no more revealing than the dated contemporary photographs. This month at Chicago's Art Institute, a traveling exhibition of Toulouse-Lautrec will offer a fresh look at that tempestuous age, peopled by the foppish, witty, dwarf-legged chronicler of Montmartre and his painter friends Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. There, done with quick, sure strokes, is the record not only of what Toulouse-Lautrec saw as he grappled with the living instant, but how he saw it, set down with a warmth and power that no camera eye can match. Nowhere is this more evident...
...Montmartre, the paint shop of Père Tanguy, and the mezzanine of Goupil's Gallery, which modest Dutch Art Dealer Theo van Gogh had turned into a boisterous rendezvous for the despised impressionists. There congregated the unbought painters, including Toulouse-Lautrec, then 23, and swashbuckling Paul Gauguin, 39, the onetime stockbroker who was now a full-fiedged painter just back from Panama and Martinique, roaring with contempt as he shook his carved cane like a fencing master before the academic Beaux Arts paintings hanging on the walls about them. Among them the clodhopperish. red-bearded Dutchman Vincent...
...subject in Western art has had more enduring appeal for the hearts and minds of men. From the West's earliest known painting of the Madonna and Child (TIME, May 16) through the passionate, attenuated figures of El Greco and Grünewald to such diverse moderns as Gauguin and Matisse, the elemental yet intimate scene of mother and newborn son has filled men with awe and rejoicing. To celebrate this event, artists have enriched the story with regal Byzantine mosaics, the glories of Chartres' medieval stained glass, with enamels, jewels, oils and frescoes. To the Nativity...
...neighbors decided that the Cones had become "mental cases." Undaunted, the two sisters, with their bachelor brother, turned the 17 rooms of their adjacent apartments into a private museum. In time every inch of wall space (including Dr. Claribel's bathroom) was covered with paintings by Derain, Gauguin, Braque, Cézanne and Matisse. The three-foot-wide corridor and living rooms were crowded with Matisse drawings and with sculpture by Renoir, Degas, Picasso, Maillol and Matisse. The two sisters made about 20 trips to Europe, each time returning with more paintings, heavy furniture and ornate boxes (in which...
Ironically, until close to the end (at the age of 54, in 1903), Gauguin believed that he would soon be rich, that he and his wife and children would be reunited, and that he would again be the slippered Papa at the family hearth. The Walter Mittys of this world dream of becoming Paul Gauguins; they will be astonished to hear how the Gauguins dream of becoming Walter Mittys...