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...museums and loud argument in its noisy bistros. He first tried formal study in the city's Academic Ranson, but soon gave it up. Ghika got his own studio, met Picasso, Braque, and Jean Arp, and learned the hard way. At first, he copied the impressionist manner of Renoir, then progressed to Cézanne and Seurat, and finally found what he was looking for in cubism. When Ghika held his first Paris show in 1927, it was a near sellout...
...small office last week, André Schoeller ruled a Corot, a Monet and a Renoir all frauds. A wealthy woman had brought him her latest purchase: 2,000,000 francs' worth of "genuine old masters," likewise all frauds. And he reported to a group of heirs, who supposed they had a fortune in Van Goghs and Cézannes: "Not a single genuine Cézanne or Van Gogh in the lot." But he was able to offer a consolation: he ruled them "all good examples of the French school of the 19th century." Thanks to the prestige...
Last week Teacher Halseth and his youngsters had their sights set higher than ever: they wanted an honest-to-goodness French master, a Renoir or possibly a Picasso. To help raise the money, Rock Springs went to a carnival at the high school, watched a water show, played bingo and had its fortune told. The party netted $1,000. With $400 already in the kitty, Halseth and Rock Springs now expect to go shopping. Says Halseth: "People here used to say 'get a photograph' the way they said 'get a horse,' when cars came out. They...
...them, said Malskat, set up a regular production line for phony masters. Working steadily, even after they were commissioned to restore St. Mary's frescoes in 1948, they copied such masters as Degas, Corot, Gauguin, Renoir, Rousseau, Chagall, Munch, Utrillo. Malskat did all of the work; sometimes he copied famous old paintings, sometimes just imitated the style of old masters. He could do one in a day, got so good at the French impressionists that they took less than an hour. Fey forged the signature to paintings, said Malskat, then went out to peddle the fakes to German...
...months to paint, then returned for her first one-man show. Paris critics nodded approval, but few people cheered a woman painter in those days. She never gave them another chance. Two years later, at the age of 54, Berthe Morisot sickened and died; her will named Auguste Renoir guardian of her 16-year-old daughter Julie...