Word: gersaint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Watteau tend to be short and sometimes contradictory; they blur when the traits of his possibly rather feckless, prickly character present themselves. He seems to have been solitary and misanthropic, though with flashes of antic gaiety: "A good friend but a difficult one," the dealer Edme-François Gersaint unhelpfully put it. Naturally one would like to know more; probably we never shall...
Nowhere is it more subtly used than in his largest and perhaps greatest painting, Gersaint's Shopsign, which was actually, though briefly, used as a sign above the dealer's premises on a Paris bridge. We are looking into a gallery that sells paintings and mirrors. The paintings are dimly legible; the mirrors are black, reflecting little. Three backs are turned: a pink cascading dress on the left, a lady and a gentleman scrutinizing a painting on the right. The sense of absorption-of a painter spying on people looking at art -is extreme...
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