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...capture its magic, the Flemish-born painter had run away to Paris at the age of 18, then studied with Stage Designer Claude Gillot and Interior Decorator Claude Audran before striking out on his own. The times cried out for a chronicler. After the aged Sun King, Louis XIV died in 1715, French society, under the leadership of the dissolute regent, the Due d'Orleans, gave itself over to a rabid pursuit of pleasure, rivaling that of Imperial Rome. Hairdos, fashions and morals reached undreamed-of heights, lengths and depths. Theaters, operas and court ballets were packed the year...
...REPERTORY COMPANY presides over two drawing rooms. In the Louis XIV salon of The Misanthrope, they are at ease with Molière's verse spoof of hypocrisy in higher society. But they appear awkward amidst the English modern of a fashionable London flat, where T. S. Eliot's metaphysical comedy, The Cocktail Party, takes place...
...REPERTORY COMPANY offers two drawing-room comedies in verse. Moliere's The Misanthrope is as deliciously vicious a lampoon of the manners and meanness of Louis XIV's court as it was 300 years ago, and it is performed with panache. But T. S. Eliot's 1950 spiritual parable, The Cocktail Party, seems stilted and stale in a limp production...
...gaunt tension that clearly foreshadows the Jugendstil 30 years before its prime. Sketches for carved colonnades incorporate fantastic root-and-branch configurations that would have delighted Spain's art nouveau master, Antoni Gaudí. Ludwig's two other palaces both evoke the rococo splendors of Louis XIV of France. From Linderhof come tutti-frutti-colored, specially commissioned Sèvres porcelain, embroidered screens inspired by Boucher, and Ludwig's magnificent throne, a Beardsleyan Oriental divan backed by three haughty, blue-and-green-enameled peacocks...
...adjacent galleries (XIV and XV), a display of Fogg graphics and paintings by contemporaries of Degas is available for comparison and teaching purposes. (In particular, note two Degas paintings: an oil sketch, "Cotton Merchants," and a finished painting, "Mme. Oliver Vilette," which bear out the Degas-Matisse relationship...