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...country. His life and work amount to a definition of urbanity. Paris is unthinkable without Manet; Manet unimaginable without Paris. Both were joined again last spring in a centenary exhibition at the Grand Palais. The retrospective was curated by two art historians, Françoise Cachin, of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and Charles Moffett, until recently curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan in New York City. Last week "Manet, 1832-1883" arrived at the Met: 95 paintings, 45 drawings, and prints. It has been shorn of two key paintings, the Olympia...
...Rodin Rediscovered"-an exhibition of some 400 sculptures, drawings and photographs that opened last week at Washington's National Gallery-may be the most impressive tribute an American museum has ever offered to a 19th century sculptor. Drawn from collections all over the world, but mainly from the Musée Rodin in Paris, the show is to sculpture, in effect, what the Museum of Modern Art's 1977 Cézanne exhibition was to painting: a means of making us see afresh the processes and fantasies, the obsessions and failures and triumphs of a very great artist...
...sculpture began to give way to assembled pieces looking like figures or standing totems. One influence on them that Nevelson likes to recall was the black iron stanchions of the Manhattan subway stations, "sculptures in themselves"; another was a carved African figure of a leopard she remembered from the Musée de l'Homme in Paris: "It was the first time I recognized the power of that animal, not as an animal, but the power of its forms." Nevelson was drawn to what was mythic and magical in sculpture just as a yearning for the primitive, the instinctively...
...experts. Eventually, after a six-year-long legal bout, the estate, valued at up to $400 million, was distributed among the various heirs, with the French government scooping up, in lieu of taxes, 3,488 works, representing one-third of the estate's value, for the proposed Musée Picasso in Paris...