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Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Repeat of last fall's excellent program, assembled from photographs, sketches, paintings, films made in the Van Gogh country of Provence. Color...
...Pissarro, and Toulouse-Lautrec are represented proportionate to their value on what must regrettably be called the art-historical market. Two of Monet's studies of Rouen cathedral are here, as is a small study by Manet after Valazquez, anticipating several later works. A self portrait by Van Gogh captures both the texture of the flesh and the introspection of the personality in precise but broad brush strokes moving inward towards the center of the composition. Van Gogh's' 'Portrait d' une femme employs the medium of oils eloquently in conveying the tactile qualities of an aging woman's face...
...friend, expecting him to laugh, took him to an exhibition of Henri Rousseau, Pissarro astonished the gallery by praising the primitive warmly. It was Pissarro who aided Gauguin after he gave up the Bourse for a fulltime career in art, and it was Pissarro who taught the young Van Gogh to open his canvases...
...office holds up even without the Picasso magic. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts reported recently that its six-week exhibit of a touring Van Gogh show drew 122,000 people. 83,000 of whom, being adults and nonmembers, paid $1 at the door...
...morality of the biographical novel as practiced by Somerset Maugham (Gauguin is called Strickland) and Irving Stone (Van Gogh is called Van Gogh) is shaky but probably defensible; the gross offense of distorting a man's life can be justified to some extent if it helps the novelist to capture the quality of the man's spirit. But there is no literary or historical justification for the cynical trespass Herman Wouk has committed in Youngblood Hawke. It is not merely a distortion; it is an act of violence...