Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reclining Figure (by Harry Kurnitz) is a comedy about an eccentric and difficult art collector, and his daughter and his dealers and his staff. Offered a fake Renoir. Lucas Edgerton feels for the first time a genuine enthusiasm-rather than mere acquisitive excitement-for a picture; and one of Playwright Kurnitz's twists is that, seeing the boss so jubilantly bamboozled. Edgerton's own cowed, stoogelike expert lacks the courage to enlighten...
...Bestsellers. Of the serious paintings in reproduction, those by Van Gogh. Renoir. Cezanne and Degas have long been the bestsellers. Van Gogh's popularity is based on relatively few pictures -the more decorative and least emo tional of his canvases. His View at La Craii, also known as Vegetable Garden (opposite), is a consistent favorite, and calm as Cream of Wheat. Edging the leaders in popularity are Picasso and Cubist Georges Braque. The still lifes which Braque specializes in are nothing if not decorative, and their complexity helps offset the chill nakedness of many modern interiors...
Beneath this artistic upper crust, there is a varied commercial stew. Among the most popular types: 1) The Parisienne, a snub-nosed, black-eyed girl in a flowery hat. derived from Renoir, but produced with the most success by a commercial artist named Huldah; 2) The Dancer, in a ballet skirt and a misty setting, inspired by Degas and churned out commercially by one Fried Pal, among others; 3) The Paris Street, in cool colors with sharp edges, originated by Utrillo, but perpetuated by a more sober and less talented host of hacks; 4) the dashing watercolor of a horse...
...Renoir's Venus Victorieuse (see cut), rejected by Salem's citizens, is now in Portland's Art Museum...
...million) ranged from gilded early Italians through paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens and Hals, and on into a luxurious display of French impressionists. Included for the first time were 33 brand-new purchases which had not even been seen in Sao Paulo. Centerpiece of the show: a fine Renoir, Baigneuse au Griffon, a nude against a background of muted brown...