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Pierre Renoir became, of course, her painter laureate. From Feb. 3 to April 1, the Art Institute of Chicago has on view its most ambitious exhibition in some years: a loan show of 89 Renoirs, tracing his career from 1862 to 1919, when, crippled by arthritis but still painting with brushes strapped to his ruined claws, he died. At one end there are early works like The Clown, 1868, with the precociously firm, sharp structure of figure and field that the 27-year-old painter had learned from Manet. At the other, one finds the semiclassical and flowery kitsch...
Newlove, author of a highly appreciated first novel, The Painter Gabriel (echoes of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth in New York's East Village), uses a light, syncopated style to move his twins quickly through the years and a series of jobs: countermen, attendants to a decaying old industrialist, driver of a brakeless ambulance. It must be inferred that Leo is the one on the left, since he does the driving...
...cause celebre that received national publicity was the "Gilbert-Poor Affair." "The evening was warm," Time magazine said later. "The Yard, as ever on such spring evenings, was restless. Two Harvard freshman strolled down to the Charles' grassy banks. They were Peter Varnum Poor, son of the famed Painter Henry Varnum Poor, and Craig Philip Gilbert, son of a Manhattan lawyer. A group of high school boys shouted at them, but they paid no attention...
...same time he is a complex man: on one side he needs to be loved by all; on another he is a machine incessantly producing charm; on still another he has the wisdom of an Indian sage. He is like one of those figures of the painter Francis Bacon who show on their faces all that is happening in their guts-he has the same devastated plasticity." (Two Bacon paintings appear under the credits on Tango, and several scenes in the film were visually inspired by his work...
...books. It takes the sovereign's life as far as the death of Albert, her prince consort, in 1861. The author had access to the Royal Family Archives at Windsor, and her rich effort at historical reconstruction is one of the finest biographies in English since George Painter's classic Marcel Proust. It is also an engrossing love story. Woodham-Smith is a historian, not a Crawfie. Her romance, moreover, is told without sentimentality and is set against the forbidding complexities of 19th century European politics...