Word: manet
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...Graefe, 66, has nearly finished his journey. Along the road he has seen and called attention to many an overgrown but inspiring ruin. He wrote the first history of painting of the 19th Century, started an arts & crafts shop, founded a literary journal (Pan), made European collectors aware of Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne. He went to Spain to bend the knee to Velazquez, returned a blazing disciple of El Greco. Though he is a frequent contributor to International Studio and Cahier d'Art, few of his more than 40 books have been translated. Some of them: Spanish Journey, Pyramid...
...Isle de la Reunion southeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, went to Paris over half a century ago to study law. He was an indifferent lawyer, but his eye for art was alert; he recognized the ability and the future value of the French Impressionists - Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir - at a time when only one other man in France, the late Art Dealer George Durand-Ruel, was willing to take a chance on them. Ambroise Vollard bought his first pic ture, a Degas racing scene, for a few francs. Soon he made friends with the artist, became intimate with...
...while he was "doing the books" for the "Review" that he saved enough money and summened up enough courage to visit Parts, that "siren city" in his mother's eyes. Here under the guidance of will Rothenstein, he saw the world of Manet of the Meulin Rouge and of the restaurant Jupien which demonstrated its aristocratic patronage by a drawing of ladies and gentlemen hanging corenets on a coat-rack instead of hats...
...sent to the Museum. Next part of the spree was by the Board of Trustees' Committee on Painting, long a rampart of conservatism. Committee conservatives are Architect Cass Gilbert, Lawyers Elihu Root Jr., William Church Osborn and Sugarman Horace Havemeyer who has given the Metropolitan many a Degas, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes. Modernism might have been doomed but for Committeeman Cornelius Bliss, a recent appointee,* brother and estate executor of the late Lizzie Bliss, benefactor of the Museum of Art. Conscientious, publicity shy, Cornelius Bliss is stanch for his late sister's modern art. When Curator Burroughs presented...
...active life in Turkey, Greece, Spain, Algeria, the Crimea, as a staff artist for the Illustrated London News. He died in Paris in 1892, having spent the last seven years of his life in bed with a broken leg. He was intimate with Thackeray, Théophile Gautier, Delacroix, Manet, Baudelaire. Few artists had more affectionate friends...