Word: impressionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what neither public nor experts had ever seen before. The walls of the gallery were covered with 120 oils and oil sketches, nearly 100 watercolors and drawings, scores of lithographs and etchings. The result was like a window on the birth of abstract art. The early canvases-impressionist landscapes, academic portraits, saccharine fairy-tale scenes-gave little hint of the revolutionary innovations to come. But suddenly (1908) the Bavarian countryside is seen in patches of fiery yellows, blues and greens. By 1910 color is triumphing over form, as a church steeple sways insanely in a polychromatic storm. Then...
...Wolf Kahn, 30, who first studied with Manhattan's leading abstractionist mentor, Hans Hofmann, then on his own switched to realistic pastels, now paints in a lyric, impressionist style that earns him a place among the Museum of Modern Art's new acquisitions. For his Late Afternoon (opposite), painted last summer in Provincetown, Mass., Kahn derived his inspiration from both the setting and his pretty model, Fellow Artist Emily Mason. He says of the completed work: "I tried to express tranquillity and contentment with overall lightness of tones, general vertical composition and subdued, dancing brush strokes...
...biggest art deals of its kind in the past quarter-century, the Edward G. and Gladys Lloyd Robinson Collection, one of the finest private ingatherings in America, was sold this week for $3,250,000. Made up mostly of French impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, the collection was doomed when the Robinsons were divorced last August and the California courts directed that their communal property be equally divided. But Movie Tough-Guy Robinson, unable to part with all his pictures ("I would like to keep them all"), held on to 14 of them. The balance of the collection-58 paintings...
Picasso for $40. The Communist collection of modern masterworks, all bought before World War I, is the result of simon-pure capitalist acquisitiveness. At the turn of the century, fabulously rich Russian merchants, financiers and landowners took the train for Paris, returned with packing cases loaded not only with impressionist masters but a cross section of the most revolutionary modern art of their...
TWICE during his long (86 years) lifetime, Pioneer Impressionist Claude Monet had to face the jeers and catcalls of critics. The first time was when his painting, Impression: Sunrise, appeared at the first impressionist showing in Paris in 1874, and was ridiculed as a formless monstrosity. But as the public slowly came to appreciate the impressionists' atmospheric, sun-drenched works. Monet grew rich, won enthusiastic plaudits from the critics as well as the public. His second rebuff came toward the end. when his studies of the water-lily pond, with its Japanese covered bridge, on his country estate...