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Specialists' Books. Art books, though generally considered all-purpose gifts, are more properly put into the specialist classification. Merely because a person has been heard to praise Van Gogh is no reason to give him an expensive work on Tunisian mosaics (the New York Graphic Society puts out an excellent Tunisian collection at $18, and if legs were offered as an optional extra, it would make a serviceable coffee table). Among the category's best : GREAT DRAWINGS OF ALL TIME (four volumes), edited by Ira Moskowitz (2,000 pp.; Shorewood; $160). The title is accurate, the selection intelligent...
Without Thunder. In his son's recounting, Renoir was the sanest and sunniest of men. His biography is a powerful antidote for the notion-acquired, perhaps, from reading biographies of Van Gogh and Gauguin-that art must spring from anguish. Not that Renoir had an easy time; at the beginning of his career his paintings were ridiculed along with those of other impressionists, and at the end of it he was twisted by a rheumatic paralysis that made each brush stroke an effort of will. What was so unusual about Renoir was the grace with which he bore...
...Gogh or not a Van Gogh. I don't know. I wasn't there." See ART, Controversial Collection...
...without dates, signatures or certifications, be offered as Manets when the best you can say for them with certainty is that in a weak way they share certain characteristics of Manet's art? And when a painting is recognizable as a variation on a self-portrait by Van Gogh, yet is not above the technical level of an average copyist, can it really be defended as an original on no other documentation than its acquisition from 'Jean Neger...
...Nobody is sure of such things," says Manhattan Dealer Harry Yotnakparian. who sold Chrysler some of the questioned pictures. "Is it a Van Gogh or not a Van Gogh? I don't know. I wasn't there...