Word: impressionist
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...share the enthusiasm the French Impressionists had for Oriental Art when we look at Boston's two exciting shows: Traditions of Japanese Art at the Fogg and Zen Painting and Calligraphy at the Museum of Fine Arts. As each member of the Impressionist group acquired something different from Oriental Art, so can each of us, whether by contemplating nature or appreciating the simplicity in Oriental interpretations of form...
...David Stein, 35, is a highly skilled British forger of post-impressionist paintings. After a London gallery exhibited his fakes-billing the show as "Master Forger David Stein Presents Braque, Klee, Miró, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso"-a Manhattan gallery eagerly tried to follow suit. New York State's attorney general took the gallery to court, contending that the paintings would be a public nuisance. But New York Supreme Court Justice Arnold Fein sided with Stein and the gallery. Since Stein signed his name to the paintings and gave fair notice that the works were "in the style...
Even an arrangement of the paintings by donors could have commented on the taste of particular families. The elaborate Toilet of Venus was donated by Wiliam K. Vanderbilt. Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist, helped the Havemeyer family choose the works of Spanish artists. El Greco's View of Toledo is part of the 1929 Havemeyer bequest: a view of Mary Cassatt's judgment...
...highest ever for a French painting. Reliable sources put it at $1,600,000 -$50,000 more than Norton Simon paid for Renoir's Le Pont des Arts in 1968. It reflected-and will encourage -the hugely inflated prices collectors seem willing to pay for Impressionist and post-Impressionist painting...
...made outsized versions. About 25 of them, some as big as 2 ft. by 4 ft. and costing as much as $3,500, were sold through Manhattan's Howard Wise Art Gallery-one of them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Still, Matisse-grandson of the French Post-Impressionist-insists that his creation is not strictly art. "What's in a Kalliroscope," he says, "is not man but nature, a reminder that the only inevitability is change...