Word: modigliani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From those early years on, Italian painting fluctuated wildly between violence and serenity. Even as the futurist wave gathered momentum, Modigliani began painting his delicately attenuated figures, and Italy's art moved on through Giorgio de Chirico's dream-like surrealism, the almost eerie quiet of Giorgio Morandi's still lifes, and finally into the boiling seas of abstract expressionism. To show the full sweep, the Museum of Modern Art lent 46 of its own works, went to 17 other U.S. museums and such private collectors as Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Peggy Guggenheim, John D. Rockefeller III, Oveta...
Guided by his lifelong friend, Artist William Glackens. Barnes began to buy up French impressionist paintings by the boatload. Although many of his early purchases were mistakes, he showed taste and a fine instinct for good investment. He was one of the discoverers of Modigliani. In one moment of sound judgment he bought 60 Soutines for $50 apiece-long before Soutine was well known. In his acquisitions, Barnes was uninhibited by ethical considerations. When his friend Leo Stein, brother of Gertrude, offered to sell his valuable collection of impressionist paintings through Barnes, the collector repaid Stein's early kindnesses...
...even bother to do that. Sure enough, when he came down next morning, the walls of his dining room were bare. "We've been robbed!" he screamed, as his wife and mother burst into tears. Gone were three Braques, three Légers, a Picasso, Modigliani, Buffet, Dufy, Miró, Matisse, Bonnard, Utrillo, Valadon, Laurencin, Derain, Bazaine, Pascin and a Rouault...