Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villas scattered through the city's parklike suburbs, the foreign ministers of Britain, France, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. took one last look at their briefs. In the ornate League of Nations Council Chamber overlooking the turquoise waters of Lake of Geneva and facing snow-capped Mont Blanc, workmen shuffled the furniture about. The great East-West confrontation was about to begin...
Several weeks ago Picasso phoned his dealer Kahnweiller in a state of great excitement. He called to say he had just purchased "Cezanne's Mont Saint-Victoire...
...Which Mont Saint-Victoire?" Kahnweiller wanted to know. Cezanne painted the theme many times...
...moment, a collector who has chosen recently and enigmatically to become anonymous, has presented Fogg with the loan of several Cezannes, including one of the late Mont Saint-Victoires. Coincidentally, the museum is host to a number of later French canvasses featuring Picasso, also anonymously offered. The resultant exhibition, then, is a fortuitous affair and a particularly happy one. It makes for many good paintings and a few tangential observations...
This particular version of Mont Saint-Victoire just approaches being over-labored, a flaw to which Cezanne was susceptible. Nevertheless, he stopped in the nick of time. A living spontaneity illuminates this painting. For that matter, two small canvases, a portrait of the artist's son, and a bather, are fresher still and the more marvelous...