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...highlight of the Van Gogh exhibition at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery last week was the portrait of a bluff, tough French colonial officer of Zouaves. The soldier had posed for some of Van Gogh's most famed portraits and had even taken drawing lessons from the unhappy master. Last week the old soldier's reminiscences were published for the first time...
...preface to the exhibition catalogue, Wildenstein boldly generalized the whole history of French painting and arrived at a conclusion which was probably as true as such sweeping statements about any subject can ever be. Throughout the show, he maintained, "we find a common approach to life conceived of charm and optimism. Without evasions and without false sentimentality, the French painter expresses his love, his mystic respect of nature...
...chief organizer of the show was multimillionaire Art Dealer Georges Wildenstein, who has galleries in Manhattan, Paris, London and Buenos Aires. He rounded up the American contributions and helped persuade the French government to cooperate in celebrating a bargain that Frenchmen can only regard...
...many ways, the most magnificent show of the season was the one displayed at Wildenstein & Co. To celebrate the firm's soth year in the U.S., Wildenstein's borrowed back 62 of the masterpieces the gallery had sold to U.S. museums and collectors. Among them: Titian's heroic Man with the Falcon, Watteau's romantic The Mezzetin and Cezanne's spacious Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffon...
...Wildenstein Galleries presented 35 canvases (TIME, March 12) by one of the greatest artists who ever lived, Peter Paul Rubens...