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...Salesmanship. Rosenberg started his art-buying career at 18 when he went to England for his father, a successful Paris art dealer. Among his first wise investments were two Van Gogh drawings for $20 each. Edouard Manet's Portrait of Victorine Meurend for $200. (In 1928, Rosenberg rebought the picture for $40,000, sold it again at a profit. It now hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Art). At 20, he took over his father's Paris salon. By paying better prices than competing dealers, Rosenberg kept artists like Picasso, Matisse, Braque and others in his stable...
Michelangelo, Murillo, Tintoretto, Greuze, Utrillo, Renoir, Fragonard, Matisse, And the Brueghels, pére et fils, Monet, Manet, Turner, Giotto, Dufy, Degas, Titian, Watteau, From Da Vinci to The Greek Each one had his own technique. Artzy's trademark is his flair For the isolated hair...
...closest male friend. "I would not have admitted," he exclaimed when first he saw her work, "that a woman could draw as well as that." He proceeded to teach her a good deal of his own almost cruelly precise draftsmanship, which has never been surpassed for subtlety. Other impressionists-Manet, Monet et al. -followed Degas' lead in drawing Painter Cassatt into their sunlit circle. From them she got the habit of subordinating form, space and texture to the pure play of light, and of giving her pictures a modest, if contrived, sketchiness...
...park, swans, haystacks, cherry pickers, and happy children with dolls. Berthe Morisot's colors were bright and sunny, her figures nicely drawn and set in an atmosphere of misty calm. Next to her works were ten other paintings from her collection, by such greats as Degas, Renoir, Manet, Monet; these showed where Berthe had learned her style...
Then, when she was 27, Berthe was introduced to a rising young artist named Edouard Manet, and the meeting colored her whole life. She became more serious about art, wrote Manet long, involved letters on what she had learned from Corot, persuaded him to leave his dim studio to paint bright countrysides and farms. In Paris, she often posed for the young painter, developed a womanly jealousy when he sometimes used another model. Berthe never admitted anything more than friendship for Manet; he was a married man. But she stayed close by, eventually married his brother Eugene...