Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gauguin's Still Life with Apples, bought at auction last year by Greek Shipping Magnate Basil Peter Goulandris for the highest known price ($297,000) ever paid for a modern oil (TIME, June 24, 1957). ¶ Most of the little-seen Stephen C. Clark collection, including Van Gogh's Cafe de Nuit, El Greco's Saint Andrew, Rembrandt's Praying Pilgrim, Cezanne's Card Players...
...seldom shown Siegfried Kramarsky collection, including Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Cachet and Garden of Daubigny, which Hitler ordered sold from German museums because'they were "degenerate." ¶ Goya's Don Vicente Osorio, portrait of a Spanish prince at the age of ten, owned by the Charles S. Paysons. <¶ A whole roomful of first-class Cezannes...
...controlled annual Salon exhibition (the art mart of its day), the impressionists were men of their age. "Their poverty irked them especially," Bazin points out, "because it prevented their living that normal life, that stable existence, to which they aspired. It was quite different with Gauguin and Van Gogh. It was these two lunatics who started the rupture between the artist and society. To the 20th century they were the models for geniuses beyond the law, possessed by superhuman power, which . . . laid them...
...colder eye, made the backstage world of ballet dancers and the artificial world of footlights into a private universe. Pissarro, who conscientiously tried his hand at each new style, set his easel up in the French countryside, gave even the meanest farm a nobility and poetry. Van Gogh took the same subject, extended his sensibilities to achieve a kind of ecstatic identification with the countryside's own windswept rhythms...
Paintings from the People. With the postimpressionists, the Louvre repeated the same farce, bought not a single Cézanne, Van Gogh or Seurat before World War II. Again it was French collectors, and in one case an American, who came to the rescue. U.S. Collector John Quinn (one of the organizers of Manhattan's famed 1913 Armory Show) gave the Louvre its one major Seurat, The Circus. Paul Gachet, son of the Dr. Gachet who took care of Van Gogh in his last months, since 1946 has given the Louvre eight Van Goghs, half the total...