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...East 67th. More than 60 works by 19 exponents of the neo-impressionist technique that built up form through the juxtaposition of tiny stippled dots of brightly contrasting colors. Among the masters of the school: Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Lucie Cousturier, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hippolyte Petitjean, Camille and Lucien Pissarro. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art In New York: Art: Dec. 6, 1963 | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...zanne often treated them like so much scrap; he even lighted the stove in his Provençal studio with works that might now be worth as much as $16,000 each. Only the foresight of his friends and early admirers-Gertrude Stein. Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro-saved those that are left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Watery Depths | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...number of major works of the past century form the core of the exhibition. Monet, Manet, Degas, Cezanne, Gaugin, Renior, Sisley, and Pissarro, and Toulouse-Lautrec are represented proportionate to their value on what must regrettably be called the art-historical market. Two of Monet's studies of Rouen cathedral are here, as is a small study by Manet after Valazquez, anticipating several later works. A self portrait by Van Gogh captures both the texture of the flesh and the introspection of the personality in precise but broad brush strokes moving inward towards the center of the composition. Van Gogh...

Author: By Richmond Crinkely, | Title: Chrysler Museum | 7/30/1962 | See Source »

...stones to draw correctly." Though he did not convert the young Paul Cezanne to impressionism, he was responsible for the perception with which Cezanne observed nature, and for his devotion to inner construction. When a pompous friend, expecting him to laugh, took him to an exhibition of Henri Rousseau, Pissarro astonished the gallery by praising the primitive warmly. It was Pissarro who aided Gauguin after he gave up the Bourse for a fulltime career in art, and it was Pissarro who taught the young Van Gogh to open his canvases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Humble & Colossal | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...peaceful landscapes and bustling city streets never scream for attention or proclaim their mastery. But the mastery is there all the same. In his last year, when he could not easily get about, Pissarro painted what he could see from his apartment windows-the Tuileries, the Louvre, the Carrousel. In one of these, he captured perfectly the golden summer light of Paris. But he did it, as usual, in a humble and muted manner forcing the viewer to take a long and tender look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Humble & Colossal | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

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