Word: seurat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yellow cow by German Expressionist Franz Marc looks like something out of a child's nursery rhyme. Small Seurat peasants bend to their toil near some childlike magic created by Paul Klee and a few austere and haunting landscapes by Lyonel Feininger. And near them hang the museum's latest acquisitions-two perfect chrysanthemums, one in pencil, the other in watercolor-done by Piet Mondrian in the days before he began painting his color-laden grilles...
...when U.S. art galleries were the private preserve of the plutocracy, an $18-a-week office worker named Edith Halpert ventured uneasily into the domain of Manhattan Dealer Joseph Brummer, offered him a down payment on a then $650 Seurat. Growled Brummer contemptuously: "Go to Macy...