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Womanologist & Mesmerist. His later life, as Biographer William Schack describes it, was a pathetic and half-demented tirade against the way the world had treated him. He was, after all, an "artist, author, composer, dramatist, globetrotter, improvisatore, womanologist, librettist, inventor, mesmerist." He had been, he told the world, the champion of everything, from shooting to pole vaulting; he was one of the world's great lovers, though "a genius gets tired of a girl in two months." As for other painters, he had no use for "this Picasso-basso fellow," or for "Bellini-meaney," or for Michelangelo ("nyeh, nyeh...
...Argyrol, by William Schack...
...Argyrol, by William Schack. The entertaining biography of Albert Barnes, self-made millionaire and self-made ogre, who bought paintings by the boatload but found his greatest joy in thumbing his nose at the world...
...Argyrol, by William Schack. The entertaining biography of Albert Barnes, self-made millionaire and self-made ogre, who bought paintings by the boatload but found his greatest joy in thumbing his nose at the world...
...telling the story of Albert Barnes, Biographer William Schack, a chemist and art critic, was severely hampered by the trustees of the Barnes Foundation, who, carrying on the founder's eccentric traditions, refused Schack all help (the collection is still closed to the general public). Without their cooperation, by painstaking research, hundreds of interviews and triangulation, Biographer Schack has written an absorbing and unmalicious study of a bizarre and probably brilliant...