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...local missionaries livid. Less than two years after his arrival, he was dead at the age of 54 from self-induced dosages of morphine to dull the pain of his virulent syphilis. Practically unknown and penniless during much of his life, Gauguin is now considered the most important post-Impressionist painter who ever lived...
DIED Some nights he was Frank Sinatra, other nights he was Anita Baker, but Danny Gans, 52, a Las Vegas Strip impressionist and singer, always entertained his adoring fans. Five nights a week, 46 weeks a year, Gans crooned comedic songs to Sin City visitors...
...Fittingly, the central character in Michael Jacobs' new play Impressionism is yet another emotionally stunted middle-aged woman (Joan Allen) too obsessed with art to be able to relate to other people. The art, in this case, is a beloved collection of Impressionist paintings in the gallery she owns; the significant other is a globetrotting photographer (Jeremy Irons) who comes to work for her. Again, two excellent actors struggle to bring life to an underenergized wisp of a play whose organizing conceit - we see key incidents from their lives in flashbacks, through the images of the famous paintings...
...dwindling supply on the market of top Impressionist 20th century art means museum-quality work should offer stable - and potentially stratospheric - growth over the coming years. In 1979, two years before the record-setting 1911 Mattise would wind up in Saint Laurent's hands, Nahmad paid about $300,000 for the piece. Although he is sanguine about the market, the dealer, based in Monte Carlo, Monaco, was staggered by Monday's sale, which also netted records for Piet Mondrian (two of the Dutchman's paintings sold for eight-digit figures), Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Klee and James Ensor...
...Giovanna Bertazzoni, head of Impressionist and modern art for Christie's London, is hoping that Monday's record results will give a boost to future sales, after several auctions have taken place with extremely limited supply. "This was a special case," she said of the Paris auction. "But we hope that this will help us unearth more masterpieces, to convince others that this is a good time to sell. We see tonight that people very much still want to invest in art." Nevertheless, the same logic - and the shaky world financial system - may yet convince collectors to hold...