Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monet probably painted the picture in 1869, when he was a young man and a failure, living in abject poverty and painting in perfect joy. Renoir used to drop in at Bougival with a loaf of bread to keep Monet going. Five years later, Monet and his friends-Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley, among others-staged a group show of their work that the French public greeted with howls of scorn. One critic had dubbed the bunch Impressionists after the title of a Monet painting: Impression-Rising...
...Chester Dale. During a 1923 tour of Europe, she switched Dale's hobby from chasing fire engines (he was an honorary New York City fire chief) to buying paintings. In the next 15 years the Dales spent more than $6,000,000 picking up some 700 paintings (e.g., Renoir's Girl With a Watering Can, Degas' Four Dancers, Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques), housed their collection in a five-story mansion off Fifth Avenue, later lent exhibits to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chicago's Art Institute and Washington's National Gallery, where some...
...rotunda walls. Three weeks ago the city got a chance to put up still another tribute to its past, but this time it was a figure that looked strikingly different from the hardy frontiersmen. The statue: a hippy bronze nude by France's great Pierre Auguste Renoir...
...worth $34,000) in trust for "a monument . . . in memory of early Oregon pioneers." Last year the trustee chose a committee (among its members: Director Thomas Colt of the Portland Art Museum, Pietro Belluschi, dean of architecture at M.I.T.), gave it free rein to find a suitable work. Renoir's Venus Victorieuse, the committee thought, was "universal" in spirit, a true masterpiece and a bargain. Price, from a Manhattan dealer...
...richly-tooled gold funeral wreath from ancient Greece, a Chinese urn from the Han dynasty, a fine green glaze beaker from the 15th century Persia. In painting, Chillman stuck to such safe and sure old masters as Fra Angelico Bellini, Rembrandt, such French impressionists as Cézanne and Renoir, and a gallery of popular Americans from John Singer Sargent to Cowboy Artists Frederic Remington...