Word: pissarros
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...small studies on the play of light over shrubbery or fields. To them he gave an incredible delicacy." Bonnard grew old joyously contemplating his own garden at Le Cannet above the shores of the Mediterranean, pursuing an ever more jubilant orchestration of clear blue skies and yellow blooms. Pissarro, the first of the impressionists to abandon Paris for the country, remained the most earthy of all. For him no garden or bloom was complete without some sense of the people who cultivated it. Monet laid out his gardens at Giverny as works of art, then used them as models...
...could also be generous. As she never lacked for money (her brother became president of the Pennsylvania Railroad), she quietly lent much of it to Paris Dealer Durand-Ruel to help back the impressionists and sold Pissarro (of whom she said "he could have taught stones to draw correctly") at her tea parties. She was largely responsible for the Havemeyer collection, which stocked New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with many of its great El Grecos, Manets, Courbets and Corots...
...terrific that it seems to me as if objects were silhouetted not only m black and white, but in blue red, brown and violet." So wrote Paul Cézanne to Pissarro from the Riviera hill town of L'Estaque. It was the sort ot keen observation of nature that Cézanne captured consummately in oils And last week, eighty years after he finished it, his Houses at L'Estaque sold for $800,000 to a private U.S. collector at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries It was a world's record...
...Klee, Delaunay and Kandinsky. But to represent pre-1900 painting, there were barely half a dozen oils. The Thannhauser gift now adds 21 works predating the 20th century, including six Van Goghs, one Degas, and three more Cézannes. Among newcomers to the museum are Daumier, Manet and Pissarro...
...With Museum President Harry F. Guggenheim (right) before Pissarro's L'Hermitage...