Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whistler Regrets. Even time stood still for father Sitwell. In the late '20s he suggested throwing an "Artists' Party," was vexed to hear that all his intended guests (Sargent, Rodin, Renoir, Whistler, Degas) were too dead to attend. As for his children's literary efforts, he either maddened them by rewriting their poems ("Two brains, dear boy, are better than one"), or warned them, against literary excess ("My cousin . . . had a friend who killed himself by writing a novel"). One paternal judgment on his gifted daughter: "Edith made a great mistake by not going in for lawn...
Like Icarus, Matisse has flown close to the sun; his most recent pictures are so richly dazzling that beside them such bold 19th Century colorists as Renoir and Van Gogh fade to dimness. And like Icarus, Henri Matisse has not much time. Sitting up in bed, the old man puts importunate visitors off with a serene apology: "I'm very busy," he murmurs, "packing my bags for the next world...
...shipped 1,695 masterpieces home, left only 1,231 minor paintings to cover the walls. Among the loot: Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, 17 Rubenses and as many Rembrandts, 24 Van Dycks and seven Poussins, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Velasquez, Vermeer, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. Total value of the Zwinger loot...
...ringside photography, was a boxing picture, close to perfect of its kind. Britain's Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger exported a casual, charming romantic comedy, I Know Where I'm Going. Nightmare Alley had a sardonic toughness which, to their detriment, U.S. films have almost lost. Jean Renoir made Woman on the Beach an artful blend of mood and melodrama. Delmer Daves enlarged his conspicuous promise as a writer-director with two melodramas, The Red House and The Dark Passage. Sweden's Torment was, in its first half, one of any good year's ten best...
...Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan in Jean Renoir's sullen thriller (TIME, June...