Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because he spelled his name, Louis, with the Roman form of u) that never was readily tamed. He was a beefy bon vivant who invariably kept two jugs of wine by his elbow during dinner. His lust for life got him the reputation of being Germany's Van Gogh, but the real sources of Corinth's robust energy were the ruddy-cheeked oils of Rubens, Hals and Rembrandt. An exhaustive retrospective that opens this week at Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art (see opposite page] and a graphics show at the Allan Frumkin Gallery reveal how - having...
VINCENT VAN GOGH: A SELF-PORTRAIT (Caedmon). Credit for this vivid auto-analysis must go first to Van Gogh for writing such searching, searing letters to his brother Theo, second to Lou Hazam for an artful job of editing, third to Lee J. Cobb for reading life into the result...
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...
Giving art to museums used to be pure eat-your-cake-and-have-it. A collector could sign away his Rembrandt, Van Gogh or Gignoux (yes, who?) to his favorite museum, deduct its value from his income tax, and leave it right over his fireplace until his death. As of midnight June 30, the Indian giving is over,, thanks to the Internal Revenue Service...
...loudest fury raged around three paintings presented as works of Jackson Pollock. The Van Gogh of the abstract expressionists has sold in private dealings of his best work for more than $100,000; a price sharply below that could hurt the Pollock market. His widow, Painter Lee Krasner, who owns many Pollocks, dropped in anxiously on Parke-Bernet to see the works. She pronounced that her husband never dripped these and hurried off to the state attorney general's office to sign a restraining order to stop the sale. Parke-Bernet had no alternative but to withdraw the paintings...