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...long way--either 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...
...have just recently produced a flurry of books to document this fin de siecle style. As if to dignify the Nouveau group, the scholars have even proposed a number of somewhat questionable theories about its far-reaching importance for modern painters, most notably, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edward Munch and even Monet...
...cocktail party was buzzing as only Chicago cocktail parties can buzz. In the richly appointed Lake Shore Drive apartment of Chicago Financier Albert Newman, the guests chatted animatedly, gazed at the original Picasso on the wall, and the Monet, the Jackson Pollock. On tables and shelves stood Peruvian fertility symbols, jade bracelets, sculptures that looked like the superstructure of a Japanese battleship. The heavy air clinked with philosophy, culture and sensitivity...
Footlights & Picnics. Within the impressionists' circle, Manet and Monet together set off what Curator Bazin calls the "Cycle of Picnics," notes: "No school of painting has ever taken so much trouble to describe the life of its contemporaries, to show them their own pleasures, to help them forget their sorrows. No school of painting was ever so optimistic...
Accepted abroad in Berlin, New York and Chicago while still suspect in Paris, the impressionists fought for Louvre recognition under the leadership of Claude Monet, who spearheaded a subscription movement to buy Manet's famed nude Olympia for the nation. Accepted in 1890 after heated argument, Olympia was hung in the Luxembourg Palace, then the waiting room for the main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion...