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...jeuner sur l'Herbe (55), and Delacroix's The Women of Algiers (50), let alone the tedious parade of dwarfs, jesters, harlequins, Castilian grandees and copulating troglodytes that has been issuing from Mougins since 1969, survive in the world's attention for one reason alone: they have been painted by Picasso...
...informal open-air painting now known as Impressionism. Painted during the summer of 1873 on the seacoast of Berck-sur-Mer, its lighter palette and sketchier treatment present a striking departure from the indoor lighting and carefully worked-up details of the earlier, sensational Le déjeuner sur I'hérbe-an outdoor scene painted in the studio. Even the Rousseau is a little offbeat, though the famous Sunday painter of imaginary jungles and deserts did some similar scenes from life in the suburbs of Paris. This fine example has all the qualities that excited the admiration...
...taking passengers to the high-domed, gleaming beige mansion on Washington, D.C.'s fashionable Foxhall Road, are apt to ask if it is an embassy. Pedestrians sometimes mistake it for a new museum, stroll in to peer at Bonnard's radiant Après le Déjeuner in the foyer. The house is not an embassy or museum, but neither is it an ordinary home. It is the new, luxurious, $1.5 million-plus home of David Lloyd Kreeger, 59, and his wife Carmen, who built it as a sort of shrine...
...Manet combined Giorgione's Arcadian pastoral with postures from a corner of Raphael's Judgment of Paris, and then transformed them into all-too-contemporary figures, one of them in the buff, picnicking on the banks of the Seine, Napoleon III considered the painting, Le Déjeuner sur I'herbe, a threat to public morals. Both it and Olympia today hang in the Louvre...
Soon, at artists' get-togethers in Manhattan's Eighth Street Club, Rivers was maintaining, "History doesn't disgust me. Old masters are my favorite painters." Manet's famous Déjeuner sur I'Herbe, in which nude models picnic contentedly with their fully dressed and well-known men about Paris, particularly attracted him. Rivers decided to achieve the same shock value; he persuaded his elderly mother-in-law, Berdie, to pose for 20 exacting, and mostly nude, examinations of anatomy. The result was almost as great a scandal as Washington...