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...Phillips Memorial Gallery, of Washington, D. C, according to news despatches, has bought Auguste Renoir's Le Dejeúner des Canotiers á Bougival, long the property of M. Durand Ruel, the dealer-collector, at a price rumored to be the "highest ever paid for a modern painting." Durand Ruel had previously refused $150,000 for it but apparently the overtures of the Washington Gallery were goldenly persuasive...
...picture was painted in 1881 and has been seen in public but little, though M. Durand Ruel lent it to a Renoir exhibition in Paris last Winter. The scene is a famous French restaurant, and the artist's wife, with her dog and two or three artistic friends, including Caillebotte, are in the composition. The size is 51 by 69 inches...
...purchasing Henri Matisse's Interior, is one of the few public galleries in America to recognize the Post-Impressionists. The painting is an excellent example of the artist's ex-treme simplification of form, his strong outlines, his vivid blues, greens, oranges. Since the death of Renoir, Matisse has been generally ranked by advanced aesthetes of the Clive Bell school as the greatest painter of France-and therefore, of the world...