Word: impressionist
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Demand is brisk for French 18th century paintings and old Italian masters, as well as moderns. But the dealers think early fauve and impressionist paintings are today's price leaders for a simple reason: both periods were of relatively brief duration. Said one Paris art dealer: "We have more than a hundred collectors waiting, willing to pay between $45,000 and $85,000 for a first-class impressionist or fauve painting...
...Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 shows Debussy of 1893 still with frank ties to late Romanticism, and not yet obsessed by the mannerisms associated with that cliche, "impressionist." Sunday's performance epitomized the standards of the Paganini musicians. Besides their interest in absolute accuracy of rhythm and intonation, the players aimed principally for lush sound. The intensely sweet tone softened the second movement into a romantic evocation of Spain, and in the Andantino it suspended time with a wholly sensuous magic...
...Salt Mines. When he is off the air, Liebman takes his pleasures seriously. With his wife, ex-Operatic Soprano Sonia Veskova ("She was a pupil of Tetraz-zini"), Liebman lives in a six-room Park Avenue apartment with an extensive collection of impressionist and primitive paintings (his favorite artists: Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Ilonka Karasz) and shelves of Dresden china, porcelain figurines and antique service plates. His personal chef "may possibly be the greatest chef in the whole world." Even when the Liebmans dine alone, service is formal: "We always have wine and finger bowls...
...American painting, sweeping from Charles Willson Peale, the academy's founder, and Benjamin West (first honorary member) to the Maine water-colors of the late (1953) John Marin. Included were the works of such figures as George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt (only U.S. painter of the French impressionist movement), the meticulous realist William Harnett, and five artists of the famed "Ashcan School" of realism-Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, John Sloan and William Glackens. Before the exhibition was under way, the U.S. Information Agency began making plans to send part of the collection abroad to show Europeans what...
...early years of marriage, painting was one of several Gauguin hobbies; he also fenced and played billiards. Mette thought Paul's pictures were very pretty and perfectly respectable (at first, they were). The clash came when Paul began buying paintings by a group of eccentrics who were called Impressionists-Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir. They were then looked upon by the French art world as something like a bunch of nudists at a bishop's tea. By the time Mette had borne her third child, father Gauguin had joined the Impressionist club...