Word: monets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group show in history has become more famous than the one staged in 1874 in the vacated Paris studios of Photographer Nadar. One look at the shocking works by such unknowns as Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Degas and Cézanne, and the critics doubled up with laughter. In Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, the critics found an epithet to pin on the upstarts: "impressionists...
...main point about the impressionists is not that they shared a name in common, but that their vitality and accomplishment rested on individual talent, stubbornly pursued by each artist in accordance with his own unique vision. Claude Monet's long lifetime of painting is a prime example. Long after impressionism ceased to be the vogue, he pushed on with his studies of light and texture. At the age of 76, troubled with approaching blindness, Monet ordered 50 huge (7 ft. by 18 ft.) canvases sent to his country studio at Giverny, began painting the water lilies in the pond...
...Galerie Charpentier, a mediocre Monet brought more than $4,000; so did a Renoir portrait which was more oddity than masterpiece (it was painted on a ten-inch circular stone slab). A Rouault landscape was knocked down for $5,700, an early Montmartre view by Utrillo went for $5,300, a Still Life with Flowers by Pierre Bonnard was quickly bid up from $5,700 to $14,000. Even a small Chagall gouache went...
...Claude Monet Bouquet went for $25,000; a Renoir Jeune Fille for $37,000. In Manhattan, a Pissarro sold...
...marriage, painting was one of several Gauguin hobbies; he also fenced and played billiards. Mette thought Paul's pictures were very pretty and perfectly respectable (at first, they were). The clash came when Paul began buying paintings by a group of eccentrics who were called Impressionists-Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir. They were then looked upon by the French art world as something like a bunch of nudists at a bishop's tea. By the time Mette had borne her third child, father Gauguin had joined the Impressionist club...