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...highlight of the Van Gogh exhibition at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery last week was the portrait of a bluff, tough French colonial officer of Zouaves. The soldier had posed for some of Van Gogh's most famed portraits and had even taken drawing lessons from the unhappy master. Last week the old soldier's reminiscences were published for the first time...
...sketches into a flood of prints showing the nation's famed views, stopping places, bridges, rivers and fairs in all kinds of weather. Bales of Hiroshige's prints found their way to Europe, did as much as anything to spark modern painting. Manet, Degas, Lautrec and Van Gogh all learned from Ukiyo-e art. But after Hiroshige's death in 1858, the art itself descended permanently to a postcard level...
...spinning a little fact into a lot of fiction, plan to go in for biography on an industrial scale. Forty biographicals (with plenty of box-office angles) are currently in the works, ranging from a close look at Moses to a better one at Lady Godiva. Other subjects: Van Gogh, Charles Lindbergh, Theda Bara, François Villon, Omar Khayyam ("The Loves of") and Jimmy Walker, the late mayor of New York City...
...complex scene-showing the ceremonial feeding of a sacrificial cock-composed with brilliant simplicity. Only 22, and hungry for further knowledge of art, Bigaud leads the field in Haiti. He borrowed his not-at-all-primitive stipple technique ready-made from a book of Van Gogh reproductions that U.S. Critic Selden Rodman gave him last summer...
...Bestsellers. Of the serious paintings in reproduction, those by Van Gogh. Renoir. Cezanne and Degas have long been the bestsellers. Van Gogh's popularity is based on relatively few pictures -the more decorative and least emo tional of his canvases. His View at La Craii, also known as Vegetable Garden (opposite), is a consistent favorite, and calm as Cream of Wheat. Edging the leaders in popularity are Picasso and Cubist Georges Braque. The still lifes which Braque specializes in are nothing if not decorative, and their complexity helps offset the chill nakedness of many modern interiors...