Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Matisse $50; both pictures are now valued at about $20,000. He found a $40,000 Henri Rousseau in a Paris jewelry shop, paid $10 for it. Other of his treasures came higher. In 1942, after 29 years of coveting it, he paid $175,000 for Renoir's magnificent Mussel Fishers at Berneval. At that time, with a collection of some 200 Renoirs, 100 Cezannes, 75 Matisses and more than 1,000 other hand-picked masterpieces, ancient and modern, valued at from $20 to $50 million, Barnes declared that there were only nine more privately owned pictures...
Unlike many wealthy collectors, Barnes not only bought pictures, he studied them. In 1925 he published his scholarly Art in Painting, now long accepted as an art text in U.S. schools. Later he collaborated on exhaustive, book-length studies of his favorite artists, Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse...
...treasures cover the history of Western painting from Byzantium to Bellows (George). The visitors always linger over such masterpieces as Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds and Raphael's Alba Madonna, but their favorite is one of the gallery's least-assuming pictures-Auguste Renoir's A Girl with a Watering...
...like epaulets, he waged a steady duel with his time. "To be perfectly frank, I haven't the slightest desire to read any novel later than Henry James, see any play later than Ibsen, hear a note of music after Richard Strauss, or look at any canvas after Renoir ... I hold that when Labor rules the world all elegance will vanish and good manners will be a thing of the past . . . The masses? . . . I should compel them to vote, of course, because of the salutary effect of voting. But I should destroy the votes, not count them...
...role in the British Kind Hearts and Coronets). The best foreign movie, according to the board, was The Titan, a Swiss-photographed art film, re-edited by craftsmen in the U.S., starring the works of Michelangelo. The New York Critics gave the foreign-film laurels to the Pagnol-Renoir-Rossellini omnibus Ways of Love...