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...auction by American Collector Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Paul Cezanne's portrait of his wife went for $112,000; Georges Braque's cubist Woman with Mandolin brought $100,800. more than double the previous top price for a Braque canvas; a pair of Renoir portraits (Ambroise Vollard as a Toreador and Misia Sert) sold for $61,600 and $44,800. Total sale: $613,256, which Chrysler will give to his Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, Mass., opened last year to show part of his massive (some 4,000 works valued at between $12 million to $15 million ) collection...
...Maurice worked intermittently as a factory hand, bicycle racer and gypsy fiddler, turned intently to painting in his 205 after his first awed exposure to the explosive colors of Van Gogh and a chance meeting with Fauve-to-be Andre Derain. Vlaminck became famous overnight after shrewd Dealer Ambroise Vollard bought a collection of his dashingly hued, bold-lined canvases in 1906. He dispiritedly followed other Fauves into cubism, but soon drifted away from Montmartre coteries. After World War I he retired to the country, became bitterly contemptuous of modern art ("Abstract paintings give me a toothache"), reserved his choicest...
...artistic conscience, he agonized over some of his paintings for 25 years before he finally considered them finished. Though his greatness is now undenied, he lived in near penury until he was over 40. To gain a minimum of security, he signed an exclusive contract with Art Dealer Ambroise Vollard, agreeing to turn over all of the paintings in his studio for a mere $10,000. After Vollard's death in 1939, Rouault brought suit, recovered some 700 of his own canvases, burned 315 of them as inferior...
Rouault first painted The Old King in 1916, kept it in his studio, reworking and retouching it until 1936, when it was bought by Rouault's taskmaster and agent, Art Dealer Ambroise Vollard. On loan to Pittsburgh's Carnegie International show when Vollard died in 1939, it was bought by contributions of Pittsburgh art patrons and given to the Carnegie Institute's permanent collection. Since then it has steadily grown in popularity, more than three years ago became the museum's public favorite...
Then Dealer Ambroise Vollard began promoting him and Rouault's reputation grew. His art was growing even faster; it lost the taint of caricature and took on the glow of compassion. Religious paintings became his most important work. At first, pure torment was what they conveyed. Then slowly Rouault imbued them with infinitely weary, infinitely tender peace. The same peace flooded his harsh landscapes, and his clowns ceased to be merely pathetic; they became almost Christlike...