Word: renoir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibit of reproductions was put up yesterday afternoon in the old Fogg Art Museum. It is of the same character as those that have preceded it this spring and includes reproductions of paintings by Manet, Renoir, Utrillo, and a number of the late 19th century German paitners. Three more exhibitions will be given this spring, one will be composed of Ingre's drawings, one of William Blake's illustrations to Dante's "Inferno" and a final miscellaneous exhibit...
Whether or not a museum as conservative as the Metropolitan would accept the Barnes collection, is a question. It contains some 700 pieces by the very modernest of the modernists. It has the bevy of nude ladies which Artist Renoir painted in his pensive way and called "Les Baigneuses," and which the Louvre failed to accept as a gift from Artist Renoir's sons. It contains tortured Goyas, and stark El Grecos; bold, eye-shaking Manets, Monets, Picassos, Soutines, Matisses, Van Goghs. It has many a tired ballet dancer by Degas, many an illuminating piece of fruit...
...French school is represented by Fragonard, Meryon, Berthe Morison, Renoir Legros, lithographs by Ingres and Dannier, and potraits by Nanteuil. There is a characteristic etching by Goya, the Spaniard, and among the Italians there is a specimen of Canaletto...
...only is this matter of the highest significance to those possessing old paintings; many of the examples of what we call modern art have proved shockingly impermanent. Sargent's Madame X and Renoir's Madame Charpentier, to mention only two of the paintings in the Metropolitan (Manhattan), are badly cracked and peeling. Professor Forbes has suggested that "perhaps a time will come when all artists may be able to obtain certified paints the quality of which has been passed on by a commission; ... if the canvases, pigments and varnishes bought by artists are not good, their pictures will...
Like the great Spring salons, this exhibtion gives its high place of honor to a retrospective assemblage of works by the leading men of yesterday-Cezanne (the large Joueurs de Cartes owned by M. Vollard, and reproduced in his monumental Biography), Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Courbet and Bazille, together with a magistral El Greco thrown in to give historical perspective...