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How does it feel to have great modern art around the house? Jean and Huguette Ramié have their own answer. When the two young artists were about to be married in 1951, their friend and neighbor Pablo Picasso slipped into their modest apartment in Vallauris, north of Cannes, and...
The Rosenberg collection of Braques was also outstanding; it included a series of peaceful still lifes and such stimulating arrangements as Pink Tablecloth and Blue and Red Guitar. Matisse was represented by eight works, notably a riotously colored Odalisque with Flowers and a small, masterfully composed Open Window at Etretat...
Still-Lifes & Laundry Bills. Eddie (no one ever called him anything else) liked realism. "I am . . . a consistent and brazen supporter of what is now slightingly called representational art," he once said. But much of what he collected was considered daringly modern and experimental at the time. In last week...
After graduation from Yale, and years of failure as a painter of expressionistic still lifes and landscapes, Osborn decided to concentrate on cartoons. The war gave him his big chance. An admiral saw his broad-penned sketches and put him to work as a lieutenant doing safety pamphlets for the...
Harnett's mellow, meticulous style was not easily achieved. A poor boy, he began by selling papers, later made a living engraving silverware. He studied painting at night. Since he could not afford live models, he painted still lifes. Their extreme realism impressed the public from the first.