Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montmartre's favorite models of the 1880s and 1890s, the petite ex-trapeze artist named Marie-Clémentine Valadon would have remained a fascinating creature. Her striking features, intense blue eyes and mocking impudence attracted most of the painters of her youth, from Puvis de Chavannes to Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. But because Marie-Clémentine gave birth to Maurice Utrillo, one of the century's most successful, eccentric and curiously talented painters, her fame as model and mother has largely obscured another passion she fiercely nourished: to be an artist...
...first caught the eye of Painter Puvis de Chavannes when she delivered his laundry. Struck by her slim figure and natural grace, he made her the model for all the figures (both male and female) in his most celebrated painting, The Sacred Wood. Other assignments soon followed. Auguste Renoir used her as the model for his contrasting pictures, Country Dance and City Dance. Toulouse-Lautrec's drawing of her, Gueule de Bois (The Hangover), so attracted Van Gogh that he wrote his brother, eagerly inquiring: "Has De Lautrec finished his picture of the woman leaning on her elbows...
...Renoir was the first to discover his model's secret. When Suzanne failed to show up for a sitting one day, Renoir went to her room. Finding her drawing a self-portrait in pastels, Renoir exclaimed in astonishment: "You, too?" Lautrec also praised her work, saw to it that she met the great, testy French master, Edgar Degas, who had seen her as an acrobat at Place Pigalle's Molier Circus before a bad fall finished her brief career. Degas in turn was delighted. Said he: "You are one of us." Recalled Suzanne, years later: "That...
...Pollock's Wounded Beast, 1943, owned by lectors' Art taste Critic is most Thomas B. accurately Hess ('42). reflected by But the current heavy U.S. corncetration in 19th and 20th century European masters. Top favorite: Picasso (seven paintings), followed by Degas, Braque, Cèzanne, Delacroix, Renoir, Van Gogh and Goya (five each...
They number 39 in all, including Renoir's famed, gentle Les Parapluies, and the small (17½ in. by 29 in.), amiable boating scene Jour d'Eté (Summer Day) by Berthe Morisot. A will drawn in 1913 by Sir Hugh, then director of Ireland's National Gallery, left the pictures to England. But before he went to his death aboard the torpedoed Lusitania off Cork in 1915, Sir Hugh added a codicil to his will giving the pictures to Ireland, provided that it built a suitable gallery for them within five years. The codicil...