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...Most popular: 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...
...Liebman takes his pleasures seriously. With his wife, ex-Operatic Soprano Sonia Veskova ("She was a pupil of Tetraz-zini"), Liebman lives in a six-room Park Avenue apartment with an extensive collection of impressionist and primitive paintings (his favorite artists: Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Ilonka Karasz) and shelves of Dresden china, porcelain figurines and antique service plates. His personal chef "may possibly be the greatest chef in the whole world." Even when the Liebmans dine alone, service is formal: "We always have wine and finger bowls...
...intimate painter who put mysterious delights in his pictures of commonplace people and things, Vuillard adapted to painting the poetic creed of his friend Stephane Mallarme:"To name an object is to do away with the three quarters of the enjoyment . . . which is derived from the satisfaction of guessing little by little: to suggest it, to evoke it-that is what charms the imagination." The imagination is consistently charmed by Vuillard's subtle, dreamy interiors, in which he weaves motifs as unobtrusively compelling as those in an oriental brocade. Missia and Thadée Natanson (opposite), painted about...
After the turn of the century, Vuillard's quiet, intimate style went out of fashion. About the same time he turned to commissioned portraits and large landscapes, which never reached the level of his interior scenes. In the early days, even the views from his Paris studio were inside pictures; the artist sits within the security of his room, looking out on the rooftops...
...symbolist who worshiped at the literary and artistic shrines of Mallarmé and Gauguin, Vuillard brought impressionism into the parlor. Like Manet, Monet and Degas, he covered his canvases with veils of light and shadow. But Vuillard's subjects were domestic-his mother, his friends and the quiet, bourgeois, wallpapered rooms in which they lived. To those everyday themes, he brought the quiet joy of small mysteries...