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NICOLAS DE STAEL IN AMERICA, the Phillips Collection, Washington. A gathering of the brilliantly colored canvases that made the French-based De Stael a rising star in America until his suicide at 41 in 1955. Through Sept...
...early days of his presidency, Pompidou would exercise an official prerogative by wandering through the Louvre after closing hours, lingering to contemplate the creations of his favorite artists. His personal collection included works by Ernst, Braque, Soulages and De Stael-some of which replaced the more traditional art that De Gaulle had favored for the presidential apartments of the Elysee Palace...
...impossible to name all the artists or point out all of the outstanding works. Miro, Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani, de Stael, Matisse, Kandinsky, Vlamink--they are all there. Three very gentle and humourous Dubuffet's, a marvelous Miro bull, Max Ernst's flowers with sea-shell impressions for petals are examples of traditionally but well represented artists. Picasso steps out of the norm with a stage curtain painted for Diaghilev's Russian Ballet, recapturing Paris's sense of community, in contrast to the unique achievements of each artist separately...
...types of works, however discontinuous the pattern is chronologically or by school. For instance, all portraits are combined in one small galery and geometric and cubist styles of all kinds are grouped in another. Dissimilarities are exploited as well. For example in the juxtaposition of Nicholaes de Stael's violent, angular Reclining Blue Nude on a Red Background and Jean Fautrier's The Gentle Woman, which is cool, liquid, and soft as an oyster...
Simone: Ah, Madame de Stael was wonderful. But all that salon-power was unofficial, illicit. Out in the real world, the public sphere, there were only men. Who remembers today that Madame de Stael coined the distinction between Classic and Romantic? In school you learn about Napoleon, Robespierre; who in the next generation will remember that Neitzsche's mistress prodded him into writing his greatest book? It's shameful...