Word: gogh
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...last Wednesday night, Picasso's 1905 Au Lapin Agile was widely expected to become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. It had been put on the block at Sotheby's in New York City by heiress Linda de Roulet, whose brother John Whitney Payson had sold Van Gogh's Irises for $53.9 million two years before. It was a far better picture than the Picasso self- portrait, Yo Picasso, that had made a freakish $47.85 million last...
...doubt, the past 15 years in America have been the golden age of the museum retrospective, bringing a series of great and (for this generation of museums and their public) definitive exhibitions, done at the highest pitch of scholarship and curatorial skill: late and early Cezanne, Picasso, Manet, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, Watteau, Velazquez, Poussin, up to MOMA's current show of Picasso's and Braque's Cubist years and, perhaps, Seurat to come...
MASTERPIECES OF IMPRESSIONISM AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM: THE ANNENBERG COLLECTION, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fifty prime paintings by artists from Van Gogh and Cezanne through Gauguin and Braque, acquired over the past four decades by publisher Walter Annenberg and his wife. Through Sept...
MASTERPIECES OF IMPRESSIONISM AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM: THE ANNENBERG COLLECTION, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fifty prime paintings by artists from Van Gogh and Cezanne through Gauguin and Braque, acquired over the past four decades by publisher Walter Annenberg and his wife. May 21 through Sept...
...leading Bolognese artist of the 17th century. For nearly 200 years after his death, he was adored by a long line of connoisseurs and tourists who held him to have been angelically inspired, the greatest painter of his age: as famous in his own way as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Van Gogh or Picasso. Percy Bysshe Shelley thought that if some cataclysm destroyed Rome, the loss of Raphael and Guido Reni would "be alone regretted...