Word: monetization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...heart and be ready, therefore, to see another in its place. Perhaps it will work out that every three months a new painting will hang in that space on the same terms. I know I want to spend a few weeks with a Hopper. Has anyone got a good Monet which he would like to rent out? I must talk to Marie Harriman about a Walt Kuhn...
...leads gently from the relative realism of Monet and the Impressionists, through the simplifications of Cezanne. Gauguin, and the Post Impressionists, to the complete abstractions of Cubism and Expressionism. Apparent eccentricity becomes logical and inevitable. Extreme individualism is conveniently pigeon-holed into consistent developments...
...movement, as the arrangement of the paintings will show, is a history of the liberation of the artist. The steps by which the Impressionists and Post Impressionists established this freedom, and its particular adaptation by the Cubists, the Expressionists and the Post War Group are outlined in the exhibition. Monet, Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Marc, Villon, Leger, Cocteau, Lurcat, Hugo are a few of the artists shown. A statement of the chief interest and contribution of each will be printed under the paintings...
...five rooms and hallway that constitute the Museum of Modern Art in the Heckscher Building, Manhattan, last week hung the best collection of modern painting yet seen there-woodcuts and paintings by Gauguin, several vivid Cezannes, a Seurat seascape, a colorful Degas, splendid examples of Frenchmen Monet, Renoir, Redon, Daumier, Picasso, Matisse, Guys and of U. S. Artists Davies, Charles and Maurice Prendergast, Dougherty, Kuhn. More newsworthy than the exhibition's quality, however, was the fact that these paintings were now the Museum's property. Before the public was invited to look, a memorial service was held...