Word: vuillards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henri Matisse had their first one-man shows. (Cézanne was 53 when Vollard "discovered" him in 1892 by buying five oils at auction for a paltry 900-odd francs.) Buying cheap and selling dear, he got in on the ground floor of Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir and Chagall as well. He then ploughed his fortune back into the publication of artists' prints and deluxe editions of texts classical and modern...
...France, where museum security is tighter than Italy's, most of the recent thefts have been from private collections; the preferred targets are tapestries and minor (hence easily negotiable) "blue chip" Ecole de Paris pictures: Rouault, Modigliani, Vuillard, Bonnard, Cezanne and the like. Major art thefts, whether for ransom or resale, have declined in England over the past few years, thanks to the formation of Scotland Yard's highly efficient art squad in 1968. "It simply does not pay criminals to steal works of art in this country," says London Art Dealer Hugh Leggatt. "The police in Britain...
...Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace of Corots. The thieves, said Director Mercedes Garberi, "displayed a very refined taste." Giovanni Spadolini, Italy's Minister of the Cultural Patrimony, was already in shock from the theft of two Piero della Francescas and a Raphael from Urbino...
...print shows. "Contemporaries of Degas," being shown in conjunction with the Museum's highly publicized Degas exhibit, displays lithographs, etchings and a few oil paintings by artists who explored the same subject matter as Degas or who were greatly influenced by the "reluctant impressionist." Prints by Toulous-Lautrec, Signac, Vuillard and Daumier are organized around the themes of women, nightlife, the circus--subjects which have rarely if ever been treated with as much insight and relish as in the works of these artists. "Paris Observed" is a brief but memorable introduction to mid-18th-century Paris and Parisians as seen...
...from the broadly patterned interiors, still lifes and self-portraits of the early '90s, with their jewel color, through the series of big decorative murals that he painted on commission. "Decorative" was no insult to Vuillard. He thought decoration one of the higher functions of art, and he was right. Even in the stubbornly worked-out compositions of his later years, Vuillard described microcosms we can still enter-hospitable and mischievous, articulate in every detail, a long triumph of sensuous integration...