Word: ruel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could also be generous. As she never lacked for money (her brother became president of the Pennsylvania Railroad), she quietly lent much of it to Paris Dealer Durand-Ruel to help back the impressionists and sold Pissarro (of whom she said "he could have taught stones to draw correctly") at her tea parties. She was largely responsible for the Havemeyer collection, which stocked New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with many of its great El Grecos, Manets, Courbets and Corots...
...commenting upon the exhibition on display last week at Paris' Durand-Ruel Gallery, Critic Pierre Cabanne of the weekly Arts neatly summed up the fate of Impressionist Camille Pissarro. He is largely ignored, said Cabanne, "for not having the ardour of Cezanne, the sensuality of Renoir, the brilliance of Sisley, the visual sharpness of Degas, the fullness of Monet's conception." At first glance, Pissarro's work does seem to lack the dazzle of his colleagues', but after longer study, the full truth emerges. Far from lacking the virtues of the others, he had them...
Error of Imitation. The Durand-Ruel exhibition shows him once again embodying all the currents of the great stream of impressionism. In his early paintings of peasants, there are the same firm, sharply outlined bodies that, in greatly developed form, became the hallmark of Renoir. In the solid structure of the landscape, there are the origins of Cezanne, and some paintings have Monet's ability to dissolve substance into light...