Word: pissaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...especially rewarding Picasso that cost just $45,000 three years ago, was bought by Kirkeby only last year for a whopping $185,000. His loss on that canvas was more than compensated by record-breaking prices for a golden clutch of modern favorites: Modigliani, Rouault. Bonnard. Vlaminck, Signac, Morisot. Pissaro and Segonzac. The whole thing had the fever of a poker game, with the blue chips in the hands of professional gamblers...
Monet Was Generous. Berthe turned her home over to impressionism's rising lights. She befriended Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Pissaro; Claude Monet generously painted a large landscape for her when she mentioned that she needed something to decorate her studio. Pierre Auguste Renoir joined her circle while he was still painting china plates and window shades for a living. Berthe helped set up exhibits of the group's work, her own included, joined in organizing auctions, and spent hours trying to bring unfriendly critics around to impressionism...