Word: lautrecs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pink & Blue Beginnings. Already schooled by his father, an art teacher, Picasso went to Paris at 19 to rule, not to worship. He did go around to see the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, whom he admired enormously, "but all the same," Picasso decided, "I paint better than Lautrec." He set out to prove it and for three years painted starved, laundresses, absinthe drinkers and grave, bearded beachcombers in blue. Nowadays they seem a bit stagy and sentimental; Barr suggests that they reflect Picasso's "room without a lamp, his meals of rotten sausages, even his burning a pile...
...collectors are less fortunate. Last week, at a Manhattan auction, Ryder's Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens went for $23,500 (to Broker Chester Dale, who has spent over $6,000,000 for French and American paintings). Other buyers (mostly anonymous) paid $30,000 for one Toulouse-Lautrec, $27,500 for another. A Corot went for $18,000; a Cezanne portrait of his wife for $24,500; a view of the Seine by Daumier for $15,250, and one by Monet for $11,000; a Renoir nude sold for $12,000. Total evening's business...
Even if they cannot see Picasso now, the G.I.s in Paris can and do buy prints of his pictures. A Quai Saint Michel shopkeeper said that he sold American soldiers from one to six Picasso prints a day. (Next in order of popularity: Matisse, Gauguin, Bonnard, Goya, Toulouse-Lautrec.) "I am surprised," he said. "They know a lot about painting, just as much as the Germans, if not more." The prints and etchings range from 300 ($6) to 5,000 francs ($100), and the average G.I. collector spends...
Modern masters are as stable as A. T. & T. Yet a war-plant worker can almost buy a Matisse on monthly payments. Some recorded sales of big-name moderns : a Van Gogh, $8,000; a Lautrec, $4,100; a Cézanne watercolor, $3,000; a Gauguin, $5,000; a Daumier, $5,500; a Picasso...
Died. Yvette Guilbert, 79, famed, tawny-haired pioneer diseuse; in Aix-en-Provence, France. The original of a Toulouse-Lautrec watercolor, her artistry was one of the risqué features of Paris of the '90s. In low neck and long black gloves she ranged from café songs to medieval ballads. She was received in England by Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan at Edward VII's request; in 1932 was dubbed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...