Word: renoirs
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Most of the old Montmartre cafes where Manet and Renoir once held court have long since given way to appliance stores and garages, but the artistic oases of the Left Bank have remained hospitable. Montparnasse reached its height during the 1920s, when Hemingway used to sit and write stories in the Closerie des Lilas, which had been a lilac-shaded country tavern during the 17th century. Hemingway complained bitterly when the management tried to attract a younger clientele by tarting up the bar and ordering all the waiters to shave off their mustaches. The Closerie is once again cozily moribund...
There is no kind of artwork that has not been forged, from Cycladic idols to Watteaus, from medieval manuscripts to rococo porcelain elephants, from Michelangelo drawings to paintings by Constable, Picasso or (a great favorite) Renoir. It used to be said that Camille Corot painted 800 pictures in his lifetime, of which 4,000 ended up in American collections...
...Naisbitt and Aburdene, market is always the operative word. As proof of a resurgence in the arts, they report that "during the Renoir show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the museum shop sold $8.3 million worth of T shirts, sweat shirts, exhibition catalogs, posters, and appointment calendars. At $2 apiece Renoir shopping bags grossed $100,000." There are no figures on how many visitors actually looked at the paintings...