Word: impressionist
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CHILDE HASSAM: AN ISLAND GARDEN REVISITED, National Museum of American Art, Washington. The islands are the Isles of Shoals, off the New Hampshire coast, and the garden was the notable cultivation of journalist-poet Celia Thaxter. Both are memorably captured here by Hassam (1859-1935), America's foremost impressionist. Through...
RENOIR: THE GREAT BATHERS. Renoir's Great Bathers combined impressionist technique and the classical figure to produce a manifesto on how modern painting could also be monumental. The famous canvas is here surrounded with related paintings, drawings and sculptures. At the Philadelphia Museum of Art through...
...garde paintings owned by the late George Costakis was a disaster, with major figures like Alexander Rodchenko and Liubov Popova falling to levels 25% to 50% under the low estimates. The worst debacle was experienced last week by the Manhattan auction house of Habsburg, Feldman Inc., whose offering of Impressionist and modern works (estimate: $35 million to $47 million) sold only eleven of 78 items for a total of $1.8 million...
...slide in the contemporary market -- the junk bonds, as distinct from the Impressionist blue chips -- is not helped by the fact that some of the biggest buyers of former years, like advertising mogul Charles Saatchi, are now strapped for cash and have turned into sellers...
...Shang bronze and a little Rembrandt self-portrait etching, nothing in the haul could be resold on the open market, or even in its shadow line. With the Vermeer, resale is all but inconceivable, although famous stolen paintings do sometimes get sold: the very picture that named the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet's Impression: Rising Sun, was stolen from the Marmottan Museum in Paris by armed robbers in 1985 and is believed to be in Japan...