Word: modiglianis
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...lavish and witty host to society and royalty. Socialites, politicians, ambassadors and industrialists come to admire his golden-eyed. part-Cherokee wife Rosita (the eighth best-dressed woman in the U.S.), his superb table and cellars, and his tastefully decorated walls (three dozen major works by Renoir, Matisse, Degas, Modigliani, Picasso, Goya...
...across America or upon the Continent--to find a better 19th century collection this summer." For those readers who prefer deeds to words, a rather partial inventory of the collections shows: 12 water-colors and drawings by Cezanne, and oils by the following: Gauguin (1), Monet (3), Picasso (3), Modigliani (2), Renoir (4), Van Gogh (3), Degas (2), Rousseau (1) and Toulouse-Lautrec...
Elsewhere in Gallery XVII is a wall of three Soutines, a Modigliani and an unusual Toulouse-Lautrec. Of the Soutines, the Gorge du Loup is least noteworthy: I find most Soutine landscapes pretty dreary matters and this essay in murky tones and crude distortions is no exception to the rule. Neither, more or less, is his rather unflattering-to-one Self Portrait. There is more of an attempt to show structural and coloristic harmony, but the colors tend to get rather high in range and the structure collapses in places. The last Soutine is an excellent Portrait of a Lady...
...Modigliani is a famous portrait of an emaciated Jean Cocteau, a few basic colors and abstracted elements being used to establish space and volume with thin painting in places subtly suggesting further possibilities for the superimposition of planes...
...this weren't enough, your reviewer has just returned from the basement of the Fogg where the Registrar's Office is temporarily sheltering oils by Modigliani (one of his most famous), Monet (a great Venetian study), Monticelli (a good still-life by this long underrated Impressionist master), Utrillo, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, and Rouault. This excellent collection, belonging to Dr. and Mrs. Erich Kahn, will soon be on display upstairs--"that is," Miss Elizabeth Strassman, the Chief Registrar, happily lamented, "if we can find any place for them...