Word: renoirs
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...such a strangle hold on the output of an entire school as did canny old Paul Durand-Ruel of Paris with the French Impressionists. Sixty years ago, when most of conservative Paris thought they were madmen. Dealer Durand-Ruel risked his fortune and his artistic reputation on Manet, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Cézanne, Degas, with the result that almost every one of their canvases has passed at one time or another through the firm. The cellars of Durand-Ruel et Cie in Paris and New York still contain untold treasures of their works...
...William J. Glackens, another of "The Eight" and long a painful disciple of Renoir, also held a retrospective exhibition in Manhattan last week. Critics were polite, could find little of his work as effective as the street scenes he used to do 35 years...
...picture, directed by Roger Richebe and with dialogue by Marcel Pagnol, is based on the novel "Les Demi Soide" by Georges Eparbes and deals with the efforts of the old soldiers of Napoleon to place L'Aiglon, Napoleon's son, on the throne of France. The cast includes Pierre Renoir as Colonel de Mentander. Constant Remy as Capitaine Deguereau. Debucourt as Lieutenant de Breuilly, and Annie Ducaux as Lise...
...Madame Bovary" been chosen as the first in the annual series of selected French talking pictures shown free of charge to Harvard and Radcliffe students during the winter. Gustav Flaubert's novel has been adapted for screen production by Jean Renoir, a brother of the artist Renoir and of the actor who takes the part of Bovary...
...nearly finished his journey. Along the road he has seen and called attention to many an overgrown but inspiring ruin. He wrote the first history of painting of the 19th Century, started an arts & crafts shop, founded a literary journal (Pan), made European collectors aware of Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne. He went to Spain to bend the knee to Velazquez, returned a blazing disciple of El Greco. Though he is a frequent contributor to International Studio and Cahier d'Art, few of his more than 40 books have been translated. Some of them: Spanish Journey, Pyramid and Temple, Degas...