Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accent was American; only a handful of artists-notably Delacroix, Courbet and Renoir-were foreigners, and almost all came from Bouvier-land. For the rest, along with Mary Cassatt, John Audubon and Childe Hassam, there were some art ists who had scarcely been heard of for years. A former naval person like the President would understandably favor a seascape by James Bard. But a Mount Monomonac by the sentimentalist Abbott Thayer, who died in 1921, or a portrait of Queen Victoria by the stodgy Franz Winterhalter, whom Ruskin dubbed a "dim blockhead," were plainly special tastes...
...artist, and about having 'modern' taste. As a result, a lot of interesting work is being neglected-Italian mannerism, for example, or the art of 19th century Venice, or early 19th century German romanticism. One longs to enter a house or apartment in which Delacroix hangs in Renoir's place, or Courbet in Cezanne...
...Parisian model market so cosmopolitan that perhaps not even De Gaulle himself could turn back the clock. Among the season's best: trim and Finnish Brigitte Juslin, who is tops in sportswear; Switzerland's dark, blue-eyed Carla Marlier; Germany's Nico Ozack ("a magnificent Renoir body-in the nude she doesn't look like a model at all"); Jasmine, ex-shepherdess from Algeria, who gained her poise carrying water jugs on her head. The favorite in the February Harper's Bazaar is Italy's Viviane, known as "La Divine" for reasons explained...
Sonja Henie herself owned a Gainsborough and a Renoir before she married Onstad, but to her own surprise she quickly caught her husband's enthusiasm for more contemporary art. Since their marriage, the collection has more than doubled, and almost all of the new acquisitions have been abstract. "At first, I guess it was a kind of sport," says Sonja of her purchases. "Just to tease my husband. Very soon it became something more. I became fascinated by the abstract things and felt I understood their meaning...
Sonja Henie's own favorite works these days are the flamboyant but powerful abstractions of Russian-born Nicolas de Stael. She owns seven of them-quite a change from Messrs. Gainsborough and Renoir...