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Among other French draughtsmen whose work is included in the exhibit are Jean Antoine Watteau, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, and Pierre Auguste Renoir...
...around the Caribbean. Married in 1939 to Elizabeth Myers, wealthy daughter of the founder of Ohio's Myers Pump Co., Mitchell lives on a 30-acre estate with a half-mile of waterfront on Sharps Point outside Annapolis, owns Maryland's most valuable private collection of paintings (Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh), and uses a luxuriously appointed houseboat as a writing hideaway (four published books on sailing, one unpubished novel...
Behind the Wall. In time Barnes assembled the world's greatest collection of Matisses, the largest group of Cezannes outside the Louvre, and over $50 million worth of art by Picasso, Braque, Gauguin, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe and Ben Shahn. When his collection outgrew his home and factory, Barnes built a marble temple to house it in suburban Merion, surrounded the place with ferocious police dogs and a ten-foot "spite wall." Ostensibly the collection was a public institution, entitled to tax exemption, but the tiny part of the public that...
...Renoir's Boating Party was lent to us by the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington people who knew the canvas 20 years ago didn't recognize it. It had been cleaned, and all the half-tone passages were gone...
...takes a retrospective look at The Turn of the Century, shows (for the first time outside an Amsterdam film archive) a sequence in which Mrs. Alfred Dreyfus leaves the Paris military prison where her husband was held. Right behind her is Emile Zola. Other strips of film show Pierre Renoir, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, George Bernard Shaw, Sarah Bernhardt, Pavlova, Sacha Guitry, Edward VII, Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor Franz Josef, British Suffragette Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, Leo Tolstoy, James M. Barrie...