Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something like $1 billion to dip into. Even at that, the art is not necessarily appreciated. One of Paul's daughters brought a friend home from Foxcroft (that school demands a lot more than a "good seat" for riding these days!). Well, the friend looked at a Van Gogh and said: "Who paints in the family?" "Nobody," the Mellon girl answered. "Dad gets them at a store...
...violinist who taught himself to paint. In later years, he recalled: "I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method." In fact, his method of squeezing colors directly from the paint tubes onto the canvas was largely inspired by viewing the Van Gogh exhibition of 1901. In addition, portraits such as L'Enfant Madeline betray a vestigial debt to Renoir's child portraits, while the pointillistic detail and balanced composition of Vue de Chatou suggest more than a few hours spent in the galleries studying the neo-impressionist work of Seurat...
...were later resold to other collectors and found their way into Manhattan galleries. The purchase set Soutine on the road to financial independence and made his work available for New York artists, turning Soutine, Willem-nilly, into a link in the chain of artistic development that runs from Van Gogh to De Kooning...
...surprises include an uncharacteristic Fragonard. "Pirtrait of a Man as Don Quixote." Deviating from his customary pink skies, many-petticoated plastic girls and French delicacy, Fragonard provides here an eighteenth century antecedent for van Gogh's thick and quick brushstrokes, and sharp outlines...
...focus is helpful in their evaluation. One approach is to concentrate on the Blocks' very rich collection of portraits, including Degas' distant "Young Man with a Hat," Seurat's study for a "Woman Powdering Herself," the famous Matisse "The Young Sailor" (version two) and the even better-known van Gogh "Self-Portrait," showing his bandaged ear. In addition, there are three sensitive Vuillards, one a "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" in a style set between the thick modelling of Manet and the pointillist inheritance of Impressionism, the other a radical self-portrait which gains depth by the luxtaposition...