Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strangest thing was Marchand's color. The paintings in his previous exhibition (TIME, May 26, 1947) had reflected the cool hues of the Burgundy forest. Lately Marchand, like Van Gogh before him, had made a pilgrimage to Arles and developed a new palette there. Reds, phosphorescent greens and blues, and jet black were his standbys now. Some of his pictures looked like the negatives of color photos, with red skies, blue suns, green sand and black and green nudes. "Color doesn't interest me," he said flatly. "I am trying to extract light from all objects...
...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
After reading the report, Expert de la Faille issued a passionate defense of the picture, which he considers not just a Van Gogh but one of the master's "great works." And Dealer Reeves Lewenthal, who discovered the picture and sold it to Goetz last year, offered to refund its purchase price, reputed to be more than $50,000. Owner Goetz, who still liked the picture, had not yet made up his mind about keeping...
Died. Baron James Ensor, 89, Belgium's major modern artist, noted for his masked, fantastic figures; in Ostend, Belgium. Pre-Surrealist Ensor, little known and seldom shown in the U.S., was, like fellow pioneers Gauguin and Van Gogh, among the first to go beyond impressionist painting...
...their use of color the paintings of the impressionists were like windows looking out onto sun-filled space. Van Gogh's were more like lamps; the powerful contrasts of pure color created an effect of light-vibration which was not confined to the pictures themselves but seemed to radiate from them. And where the impressionists minimized drawing, he applied an oriental concept that he had learned from studying the woodcuts of the 19th Century Japanese artists, Hiroshige and Hokusai. To Van Gogh, as to the Japanese, line was more than a lasso for capturing shapes...