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Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir. The author, who as a boy sat for his father, the great impressionist painter, now turns portraitist, and his biography is one of the most likable in years...
Thomas Howe, director of San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor, is the man behind the Barbizon tour. With impressionist and post-impressionist art priced high, Howe noted a few years ago that collectors were ready to take another look at work that had fallen out of favor. "The feathery things are coming back,'' he said. "Privately, the big dealers are buying them up and salting them away." He looked over his own museum's Barbizon collection, decided that by adding paintings from local collectors (including Millet's once famous Man with...
...large a part in 19th century musical idiom. Clarity, precision, balance, proportion were the qualities he was trying for-and he achieved them so brilliantly that he became the great emancipator for a whole generation of composers. In his fascination with primary color, with pure emotion, he resembled the impressionist painters-Cezanne perhaps, or Monet. Debussy still surprises with his strange, exotic and otherworldly sound. Studied in fresh detail-in such books as British Musicologist Edward Lockspeiser's new biography, Debussy: His Life and Mind (Vol. 1)-he still fascinates as a talented and tormented...
Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir. Life with a great impressionist painter and a charmingly quirky parent, fondly recollected by his gifted...
During a visit to Madrid one day around the turn of the century, Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer of Manhattan bustled into the hotel room of her millionaire husband and airily announced that she was going out to buy an El Greco. With her was Mary Cassatt, the noted American impressionist, who was helping the Have meyers build their great art collection. Said Sugar Tycoon Havemeyer: "You had better add a Goya while you are about it." Replied Painter Cassatt: "Perhaps we may. Who knows?" And with that, the two ladies swept out of the room and off to their mission...