Word: rouaults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georges Braque and Georges Rouault were working in Paris as usual. Rouault kept up a barrage of bitter controversies and lawsuits against his enemies...
...book sale particularly, connoisseurs held their seats as the prices skyrocketed. The Manet ellustrées published in 1929, containing Manet watercolor reproductions in color, went for $360-though its Paris price ten years ago was around $30. The collection was a market sensation from Derain to Dufy, from Rouault to Renoir. It was strongest in works by Crowninshield's old friends, French Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac and French Sculptor Charles Despiau. Highest price of the auction was $7,250 for de Segonzac's vigorously painted French riverside with a church in the background...
Decker's show consisted of 16 eclectically painted portraits, landscapes, character studies. (Habitually, Decker paintings look as if they had been done by somebody else: Van Gogh, Rouault, Utrillo, Toulouse-Lautrec, Daumier.) Said Painter Decker of this parodistic paroxysm: "I have no style because I don't believe in styles for an artist...
Considering his 19th-Century fame, the prolific number of paintings he produced, and the fact that he taught French Modernists Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse in their youth, also British Painter Sir John Lavery, astonishingly little is known about Adolphe William Bouguereau. He was born at La Rochelle, France in 1825, clerked in Bordeaux under his father, an olive oil trader, attended Bordeaux's Ecole des Beaux-arts...
Painted with broad brushwork reminiscent of Georges Rouault's (TIME, Nov. 25, 1940), the show's 58 pictures depicted shadowy landscapes, sprawling human figures colored with the dull sheen of cast iron and stove polish. Weird, mystical canvases, as big as murals, showed mind-wrecking concepts like birth and death. Many, obscurely symbolic, writhed with brilliantly colored male and female figures, with fish and anthropomorphic bric-a-brac in a Freudian Walpurgisnacht...