Word: signac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...especially rewarding Picasso that cost just $45,000 three years ago, was bought by Kirkeby only last year for a whopping $185,000. His loss on that canvas was more than compensated by record-breaking prices for a golden clutch of modern favorites: Modigliani, Rouault. Bonnard. Vlaminck, Signac, Morisot. Pissaro and Segonzac. The whole thing had the fever of a poker game, with the blue chips in the hands of professional gamblers...
From the first crack of the hammer by veteran Auctioneer Louis J. Marion, paintings by Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Lautrec were knocked down at the top prices Parke-Bernet had noted in their confidential books. But when a handsome view of the Tuileries by Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener...
...settlement, was on the telephone from Montreal (where he is touring in The Middle of the Night), picked up Derain's Vase of Flowers for $5,500, Georges Braque's The Sausage for $12,000. ¶ Mrs. David Rockefeller went $11,000 over estimates to buy Paul Signac's pointillist Beach Scene, St. Brieuc...
...Cranes in the Moonlight by Japan's leading lithographer, Yoshinobu Masuda, 51, and Zebras, by Swiss Painter Hans Erni. What gladdens lithograph fans most, however, is that the current boom is matching quality with quantity. Not since the days when such lithographers as Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and Signac were at work has the outlook been so bright. Says Cincinnati's Print Curator Gustave von Groschwitz: "The current boom will equal and already looks as if it will surpass the golden age of the 1890s...
Other paintings on display at the gallery-each in four to six copies-were by Picasso, Dufy, Klee, Vlaminck, Signac and Derain. The facsimiles had been made by 28-year-old Janine Aeply and her husband Jean Fautrier on hand presses in a little studio ten miles outside Paris...