Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prize, the late Carroll Sargent Tyson Jr. (1878-1956) was a highly discerning art collector. That was evident last week when the Philadelphia Museum of Art reported that Tyson's widow, who died Aug. 2, had willed the museum 19 masterworks, including five Renoirs, two Manets, a Van Gogh, a Goya, a Degas. "The Tysons' taste was impeccable," said the museum's president, R. Sturges Ingersoll. "These paintings are of a quality that will make it almost impossible for future collectors to meet their standard...
...with the vi brant tendrils of art nouveau. Com pared to the primitive force of some expressionists, Heckel's forms have been described as "lyrical and refined." But taken alone, their chief characteristic is a searing fury-a world of distorted faces and figures as throbbing as Van Gogh's and as pain-racked as Munch...
...palette in French painting." Rodin admired him "as the painter of movement," and Renoir considered Delacroix "the essential link" between him and Rubens and Titian. Seurat said of his theory of color that "it represents the most rigorous application of scientific principles interpreted through a personality." Matisse and Van Gogh had Delacroix reproductions on their walls, and Kandinsky was in debt to Delacroix when he began formulating his theory on the correlation of color and the states of the human soul...
...advertise, they have put on some admirable prestige shows, such as an exhibition of Van Gogh self-portraits and a show of the works of the Bauhaus. They send out the glossiest catalogues, give the flossiest cocktail parties. What bothers their competitors is the brash commercialism with which they do all this. "I'm sorry to have to admit it," says Lloyd's son Gilbert, who is now on the staff, "but Marlborough is the most hated gallery in London...
Newest name to be linked with Eliza beth Taylor is, of all people, Vincent Van Gogh. Liz's yen for the finer things crept into the news when California Art Dealer Francis Taylor, representing his daughter, traipsed off to Sotheby's London auction rooms and paid $257,600 for a Van Gogh landscape, View of the Asylum and Chapel of St. Remy. Already on loan from Liz to the Los Angeles Museum are a Renoir, a Cassatt, a Modigliani, a Rouault and a Frans Hals...