Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paperbacks were even publishing originals and luring away writers with promises of better royalties and wider readership. But the paperbacks were headed for trouble: in Washington, a congressional committee was lambasting the sexy covers-frequently on reprints of eminently respectable works, e.g., a nude model on a Van Gogh biography-which had become eyesores in the nation's drugstores...
...Punch in 1854, and when he died, 37 years and some 3,000 cartoons later, he was still sketching for Punch on a piecework basis. Only a few experts ever saw his originals, and they became a devoted following. Degas knew of Keene and admired him; so did Van Gogh, who conscientiously clipped his drawings as they appeared in Punch. Whistler once said that, with the possible exception of Hogarth, Keene was the greatest artist England had ever produced. Yet Keene never seemed to believe his admirers. He was astounded when a French writer once asked for some material...
...work of contemporary painters, conservative as well as the most radical experimenters. Those of you who have been collecting TIME'S Art color pages now have a gallery of reproductions that includes the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, John Sloan, Andrew Wyeth, El Greco, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Wassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Paul Cezanne, Paolo Veronese and Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, the color pages have provided the opportunity to show a wide range of other art forms: from modern church architecture to flower arrangements, from Indian sand painting to luminous sculpture, from 20th century fireworks...
...Paris last week was an art show with a lofty label-"Masterpieces of the 20th Century"-and a thesis. Among the 114 canvases and twelve sculptures on display were major works by Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Marcel Duchamp and scores of lesser lights. The thesis: "Such cultural achievements are possible only in a climate of intellectual freedom...
France's wealthiest dealers and collectors battled it out. Renoir's Young Girl with Flowers in Her Hat went for $64,000, Van Gogh's The Thistles for $47,000, Fragonard's The Girl with the Dogs for $30,000. The prize piece: Cézanne's simple still life, Apples and Biscuits. When the auctioneer finally banged down his hammer, a French leadmine millionaire wrote out a check for 33 million francs ($94,281), the highest auction price ever paid for a Cézanne...