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Churchillian Lot. But before the hors d'oeuvres, business came first-which was apparently just what the audience wanted. They gasped when the first offering, an 8-in. by 61-in. pencil and crayon drawing by Pissarro, drew a walloping $2,300. From then on, there was no stopping them. Bids came in volleys as Chagall's La Madone du Village shot up to $82,500 (v. his previous all-time high of $77,500). Bonnard's opalescent bath peekaboo at his wife, La Glace Haute, went to the Carnegie Institute...
Canvas on Polyester. In Malraux's opinion, the original mistake was that the old ceiling had not been painted by a Delacroix, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Redon or Pissarro. Since none of them are alive, he redecorated...
...with a typically self-conscious flourish: "Oh, yes, I am a great criminal. What does it matter! Michelangelo was too!" He exchanged his stockbroker's black business suits for a fisherman's blue jersey and high boots, retreated to cultivate a new role-"the austere heretic," in Pissarro's words, who "pontificated and was followed by a train of young...
Prophets & Beasts. The focus of the collection was the postimpressionists, those who rejected the spontaneous, open-air naturalism of the early Monet, Pissarro and Degas. Two groups attracted the Hahnlosers' attention: the Nabis (or prophets, from Hebrew), and the later, more violently color-clashing...
IMPRESSIONISTS-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. A wealth of French impressionist work in various media ranging from an 1860 Boudin to a 1920 Monet. Other familiar names: Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Cassatt, Fantin-Latour, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro and Van Gogh. Through...