Word: millet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Camille Pissarro became the unofficial secretary of the group, writing to dealers, arranging shows, patching quarrels. As anyone walking round last week's exhibition could see, Impressionist Pissarro liked his friends' painting almost too well. He painted sometimes like Millet, sometimes like Cezanne, sometimes like Sisley, sometimes like Mary Cassatt. When his friend Seurat invented a technique of painting with tiny blobs of pure color, Camille Pissarro tried that too. In that manner is possibly the most effective canvas in last week's exhibition-the Dieppe railway train disappearing into a green forest beyond a yellow corn...
Robert H. Chase '38, Robert Day '36, John A. Day '37, Morris Earle '38, Thomas Fuller '38, J. Bradford Millet '38, Robert D. Reed '36, Arthur M. Sherwood, III '36, Floyd W. Tomkins, Jr. '38, Gavin Hadden, Jr. '38, Charles D. Ruch '38, Peter P. Hale '38, Charles A. Munn, Jr. '38, Thomas Newbold '38, S. Trafford Hicks...
Nearly five years after the original charge was made, a court in Fontainebleau, France, found Painter Jean François Millet's grandson Jean Charles guilty of forging canvases, selling them to foreigners as the work of Grandfather Millet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro (TIME, May 19, 1930; Feb.11). Grandson Millet and his partner in forgery were sentenced to six months in jail, fined 500 francs ($33) each, ordered to pay a total of 120,000 francs to the dealer who brought the charge. Carefully suppressed was evidence as to how many pictures were forged and who paid how much...
...Greco's St. Ildefonso, Writing was owned years ago, before modernist painters had made the great Spanish mystic their particular hero and driven his prices sky high, by Artists Jean François Millet and Edouard...
...Scratch the gate in the painting," said Grandson Millet, "and you will find a cow underneath...