Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovery, reported by John Canaday in the New York Times, that last May the Metropolitan had secretly sold two paintings to the Liechtenstein branch of a leading international dealer, Marlborough Fine Art. The pictures were Henri Rousseau's The Tropics and The Olive Pickers by Van Gogh. Last week the Met disclosed that two more of its paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, had also been traded to Marlborough for two unnamed works of art. Though the Metropolitan refuses to confirm or deny it, it is an open secret in the art world that these are a painting...
...Cezanne would never have interested me a bit if he had lived and thought like Jacques-Emile Blanche, even if the apples he had painted had been ten times as beautiful. What forces our interest in Cezanne's anziety that's Cezanne's lesson; the torments of Van Gogh--that is the actual drama of the man. The rest is sham...
...there was Manny Farber, telling me that the problem with film criticism was the hype-type language used. "Everyone has an eye on the big score," he said. "You can put the name 'Van Gogh' in place of 'Peckinpah' in the reviews Straw Dogs got--that's how obscene this obsession with greatness has become...Film is a most complex thing, you can't judge it seriously on one viewing...but after a while no one looks at it closely anymore." This wasn't prepackaged. Farber brooded, the middle of his wizened face wrinkling, and his eyes shielded from...
...self-converted from the pages of women's magazines into box office scenarios, Remarque appeared to be a kind of cinematic fantasy himself. He was at least as handsome as his own leading men. For a time he had been a racing driver of sorts. He collected Van Gogh, Cézanne, Renoir and Degas. What more could a reader ask of a novelist? But behind the celebrity-author lay a more substantial personality...
...than for $2,500. But what would the vitriolic old curmudgeon Edgar Degas-who prophetically remarked that there are some kinds of success indistinguishable from panic-make of the $530,000 paid for one of his pastels at Parke-Bernet last May? How would the impoverished Van Gogh have greeted the news that 80 years after his death his later oils would routinely go for anything between $250,000 and $1,000,000 to exactly the same sort of people who, when he lived, bought Meissoniers...