Word: redone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spend good money for Picassos. The two it chose were from eras when Picasso was painting in a classic style: the Woman in White, painted in 1923, and the 1905 Coiffure. The Met also agreed to buy from the Modern three Seurat drawings, paintings by Signac, Cézanne, Redon, Rouault and Matisse; sculptures by Maillol, Despiau and Kolbe, and a raft of U.S. folk art-all for $191,000. That would give the Modern more money to spend on contemporaries and relative unknowns-who might some day become "classic...
Other standouts: a competently sumptuous Nude at the Mirror, by Georges Capon; Edouard Goerg's fuzzy, dreamy Midnight Bouquet, reminiscent of the 19th-Century Romanticist Odilon Redon; and Astarté, by André Marchand. Marchand, in his 30s, is considered one of the "younger" painters. His picture of green flesh, black water and blue sand was startling in a show full of surprises. The most surprising thing about it was that he had painted the sky blue...
...worked away in a drab little studio above a plasterer's shop, taking his paintings very seriously, lavishing the utmost care on each geometrically exact landscape. When he started sending his pictures each year to the Salon des Independants to be hung alongside the works of painters like Redon (TIME, Aug. 25), Seurat and Signac, critics and fellow artists suppressed smiles...
...exhibition of paintings by leading modern European artists will open today in the Graduate School of Design, Robinson Hall. The display, assembled by New York's Museum of Modern Art, will continue daily and Sunday through February 10. Included are paintings by Cezanne, Redon, Braque, Kice...
...until Redon was 35 did he find his best refuge from reality in charcoal drawing and lithography. He took no part in Paris' gregarious Bohemia, knew intimately very few of the Left Bank great. Prim and methodical in his daily life, he worked continuously in a small parlor full of old-fashioned furniture and knickknacks, wore white cloth gloves while working, took an occasional evening off to drink tea with a small circle of intimate friends: the poet Mallarme, the composer Ernest Chausson, the decadent novelist Joris Karl Huysmans...