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...Auvers painted just three weeks before his death in 1890 and an 1886 self-portrait. A voluptuous Renoir, After the Bath, painted in 1876, is the twin to one in Moscow's Push kin Museum. Also on view are outstand ing paintings by Cezanne, Delacroix, Millet, Manet, Monet, Degas and Corot. But, for many critics, the most exciting works were four oils and two sepia sketches of the view through his window by the German Romantic, Caspar David Friedrich, who died in 1840. Their misty vistas and eerily precise draftsmanship emphasize the mystic tie that binds Goethian romanticism...
...that, he works only about half the time. The rest of the time he spends "doing whatever I feel mostly like doing." Prowling the art galleries and fishing are two favorite relaxations: his penthouse apartment on Manhattan's East Side is decorated with paintings and drawings by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Vlaminck, and his twelve-room home in suburban Connecticut-built around a converted, 100-year-old schoolhouse-has a fresh-water pond containing a private stock of trout...
...romantic mood of Louis' paintings has a atrong kinship with the lyrical, misty spacelessness of the late paintings by Monet. In the Water Lilies, Monet produced a rhapsodic mood of ethereal spacelessness by painting abstract surfaces in which continuously changing relationships of form and color exist for themselves, in spite of some vestigial remains of subject-matter. The rich, almost voluptuous, color of the Louis paintings and the organic growth of the forms have more in common with Art Nouveau. Gauguin's rich palette and his gently curving patterns immediately come to mind. Louis' forms also suggest some affinity...
High society is the tepid wasteland between Old Society and pop culture. Buy an apartment with a spectacular East River view of the National Biscuit Company. Furnish it with Louis XV furniture and a Monet, any Monet--and you're in. Except you are not. In their frantic battle to retain Youth and Style, the beautiful people have discovered pop culture and all its childish play things...
...Born in 1824, he had spent his childhood at Le Havre, and when his early facility at drawing earned him a grant to study art in Paris, he chose instead to paint on his own and use the money for living. Boudin had discovered and nurtured the young Claude Monet, but he did not think that he himself had the "temperament" to become a great master. And so he preferred to do what pleased him. Unencumbered by academic training, he developed alone into a proto-impressionist, fascinated by the flow and flood of light...