Word: impressionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Died. Waldo Peirce, 85. American impressionist painter, a bewhiskered giant of a man noted as much for his exuberant life-style as for his bold, spontaneous art; of pneumonia; in Newburyport, Mass. Peirce lived with all the verve and gusto of his lifelong friend and traveling companion Ernest Hemingway, even to the point of taking four wives and running with the bulls at Pamplona. His splashy, sensuously colored paintings, said one critic, "smell of sweat and sound like laughter...
Every known Raphael or Bruegel has long since found a permanent home. But there is still a floating supply of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works that demonstrate the buyer's sound yet "modern" taste. As a result, there seems no way for such works to go but up. Even the $230,000 paid for a minor Matisse, Fete des Fleurs a Nice, more than doubled the artist's record price of $106,152, set only a year ago. For Impressionists, the trade's present rule of thumb is that what $1 would buy in 1893 would cost...