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...holiday destination, klagenfurt may not have the charm of Siena or the sexy allure of St. Tropez, but it has something potentially better - an airport. For years, the sunny southern Austrian town was just about nowhere on the list of British vacationers' choices. But Klagenfurt is one of the newest destinations for Ryanair, the no-frills Irish carrier. The tourists are pouring...
...coast of France in an 11-m cutter christened, in homage to Edouard Manet's infamous nude, the Olympia. (His first and much smaller boat he named, to show his artistic affiliations, the Manet-Zola-Wagner, a heavy cargo for a mere day sailer to carry.) He "discovered" St.-Tropez long before tourism did, and built there a big rambling house, La Hune, which was his base and which still, happily, belongs to his descendants...
Luck--and a yachtsman's robust health--granted Signac some 40 years more than Seurat got. But he never painted better than he did in the late 1880s and early 1890s. His best pictures of the Cote d'Azur--of Cassis, of St.-Tropez--possess a wonderful rigor, density and subtlety of color. The danger inherent in pointillism was that all those microdots, if their tonal relations were not perfectly controlled, could look like a bad case of measles. In his middle years Signac almost always avoided this. The seascapes become what they are meant to be: a vibration...
...master of the dot in French painting? Georges Seurat, most would answer. But there was at least one other: Seurat's friend and luminous fellow painter, Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac (1863-1935). Signac, an avid yachtsman, helped create the French Riviera as a subject for painting--and Saint-Tropez, where he settled from 1892 on, as a mecca for tourism. His pursuit of pure color sensation, the yellow of beaches and the purple of shade under the umbrella-pines, made his canvases radical in their time. Yet to a modern eye, his paradisiacal view of the world--a world...
DIED. JEAN-PIERRE AUMONT, 90, debonair French actor whose career spanned six decades and several continents; in Saint Tropez. His reel-life leading-man status translated to real-life heroism when he earned the Croix de Guerre for service in the French armed forces in 1944. An actor who performed on both the stage and silver screen--most notably as a randy swimming instructor in Lac aux Dames--Aumont was also a megastar with women. Although he married twice, he was more celebrated for his engagements to, among others, screen luminaries Hedy Lamarr and Grace Kelly...