Word: seurat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...zanne dabbed, he did not dot (like Seurat) or dash (like Monet). The vibrations of light, which so fascinated his impressionist friends, left him cool. "I know nothing except color," he explained, and added: "Light is but one tone of a place; shadow is another." Mainly through color, Cézanne recreated the deep sunny space of L'Estaque, a canvas which combines the repose of a pyramid with the lightness of air. Through color he made Madame Cézanne look fixed and solid as a newel post (she was a patient poser but a flighty creature, seldom...
...John Hay Whitneys' pictures, which top the show, are magnificent examples of such modern French greats as Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Rousseau, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse. "Jock" Whitney, 47, has an eye for painting to equal his eye for horseflesh and business investments, and his vast fortune amply accommodates his tastes. The Whitneys have a full-time curator, Art Historian John Rewald, to help with their collection, but Whitney decides on all purchases himself. "We've bought what struck us as being particularly beautiful," he says...