Word: post-impressionists
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...Gogh, who was one of the leaders of the Post-Impressionist movement, produced an estimated 900 paintings and 1,200 drawings...
...trove--whose existence was first officially revealed in 1990 and exhibited in St. Petersburg in 1993--is among the mass of art stolen from German collections that has only recently come to light in Russia. Some of the most celebrated of these works, a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, will go on display this week at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The exhibit comes on the heels of another display of looted art mounted a few weeks ago by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. These exhibitions have renewed an emotional, historically charged debate over what should...
...Sarah Kianovsky, the point of the exhibit is to promote qualitative thinking, comparing the artists' styles and the movements in which they flourished. All of the works were done between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and at first glance, the show seems like a grab-bag from post-Impressionist schools. But after time and questioning ("Why these works?") a cohesiveness develops based on similarities and differences...
...moment it seemed like the '80s again in the art market: while a dozen works by Andy Warhol failed to find any buyers at all during the spring auctions in New York, a still life by the French post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne sold for $28.6 million...
...collectors have been courted more assiduously than Walter Annenberg, 83, the former chairman of Triangle Publications and Richard Nixon's onetime ambassador to Britain. Over the years, Annenberg had assembled a choice group of some 50 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, for which -- only a year ago, at the peak of the now badly deflated art market -- he turned down an offer of $1 billion from a Japanese syndicate...