Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after he had been painting for some 30 years, demented Pierre Dumont tried to kill his own mother and was committed to an insane asylum in Paris. There, in 1936, he died in poverty, so overshadowed as an artist by his fellow impressionists Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro that the world had already forgotten about him. Last week London's Redfern Gallery threw open its doors to the first showing of Dumont's works outside France, and the long-neglected painter seemed suddenly destined for an amazing revival...
...Golden Coach. Jean Renoir's costume comedy of Spain's golden age, as rich in color as his father's paintings, with Anna Magnani at her best (TIME...
...discussion of the Tate Gallery's affairs, when you refer to the charge that "the Tate trustees had sold good paintings, bought inferior works at inflated prices," you do not specify what they sold, what bought. Actually what was lately sold was a nude bather by Renoir, whose popularity in contemporary America you document in your color spread in the same issue. They sold it for $16,800 . . . and their principal purchase from this money was Picasso's cubist Seated Nude Woman...
...yield to no one in admiration of Renoir and actually have 29 of his works, of all periods, presently hanging. But paintings and painters do gradually use up and outlast their popularity ... In 1950 we here accepted the gift of Picasso's Nude Woman (1910), closely equivalent to the Tate's purchase. A 57th Street dealer tells us the going price for it would be $25,000, if anything equivalent were attainable−so a price of, say, $12,500 for the Tate Picasso would scarcely be at an inflated price...
While its charm is impaired by a bitter denunciation of the sort of social "game" that must be played by rules, The Rules of the Game is still a comedy. Chase scenes and insinuating servants join other well-aged comic props, twisted by the Renoir touch into a clever and enjoyable satire...