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...park, swans, haystacks, cherry pickers, and happy children with dolls. Berthe Morisot's colors were bright and sunny, her figures nicely drawn and set in an atmosphere of misty calm. Next to her works were ten other paintings from her collection, by such greats as Degas, Renoir, Manet, Monet; these showed where Berthe had learned her style...
Monet Was Generous. Berthe turned her home over to impressionism's rising lights. She befriended Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Pissaro; Claude Monet generously painted a large landscape for her when she mentioned that she needed something to decorate her studio. Pierre Auguste Renoir joined her circle while he was still painting china plates and window shades for a living. Berthe helped set up exhibits of the group's work, her own included, joined in organizing auctions, and spent hours trying to bring unfriendly critics around to impressionism...
...Chippendale and other 18th century English carpenters. The old Crown Derby plates she ate off had occasional cracks, and the antique Paul Storr silver was once slobbered in by King George III. The pictures on the walls were horrors-the work of hacks like Rembrandt, Hals, Velasquez and Renoir...
...lifted the whole exhibition into brilliance; the few who are represented at Venice shine like lights in the prevailing gloom. Three of their works are reproduced opposite. Dufy's 41 pictures, dating back to 1904, prove for the umpteenth time his vintage quality. Partly crippled by arthritis, as Renoir was, he permits nothing but ease and gaiety to show in his work, the same effect that Renoir always achieved. Hopper's 20 contributions are comparatively dour, and less deft, but their directness and monumentality may help earn him a place in history next to the two great masters...
...first prize at the Cannes Film Festival and stars 15-year-old Maria Fiore in her first picture. The bill may be topped by the most ambitious ($1,000,000) and first Technicolor movie Italy has yet made: The Golden Coach, directed by France's Jean (The River) Renoir, and starring Anna Magnani...