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Three Was Wow. During the next five years, the pair underwent what she recalls as "a painting bath." Says she: "There wasn't a show we missed, whether of Pollock or Fantin-Latour. We checked catalogues. One check meant we liked it. Two checks was pretty good. Three was wow! This seems the opposite of that lofty beautiful experience that art is supposed to be. Every painting is supposed to be a valid expression and interesting. But the truth is some work and some don't. That happens with all painters in every...
...grandchildren. He has a dachshund named Jason, plays golf most Sunday mornings (in the 80s), and likes the movies enough to queue up with the crowds along the Champs Elysees to see the latest detective flicks or Chaplain classics. Couve is also a connoisseur of wine. His favorite: Chateau-Latour...
Beaulieu (Georges de Latour Private Reserve) '51 and '55 Charles Krug, Vintage Selection, '57 LouisMartini, Private Reserve...
...their family in the gallery (founded in 1841). The deal primarily, like Childs, in American pictures of the last century; their specialty in marine painting. But at any given time they may also have works of high quality of other periods; currently their stock includes a fine Fanti-Latour and several Flemish still-lifes. As they do not run regular exhibits this is mainly a gallery for the serious collector.ALBERT ALCALAY: Structure, Structure, Structure...
Biographer as Surgeon. Soyer's group portrait is essentially a salute to the past, an evocation of his fellow realists and their combined debt to Eakins as the greatest painter in the American realist tradition. Soyer unabashedly searched the past for precedent, modeled his composition on Fantin-Latour's 1864 Homage to Delacroix. He prepared himself by making separate portraits of each figure from life, except for the late Reginald Marsh, whom Soyer had painted 24 years earlier; he simply copied the old portrait into the final 6-ft. 8-in. by 7-ft. 4-in. canvas...