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Lautrec prepared this painting with the kind of care he had learned to give historical subjects during his student training at Cormon's academy. There are six immobile figures: one standing with her chemise hiked up as though getting ready for a medical inspection; the other five sitting in postures of frozen relaxation on the big plum-colored sofas. Madame presides in her lilac dress, like a weary priestess at a rite. The self-conscious geometry of the poses, dominated by the black angular legs of the girl in the foreground, reinforces the plush silence...
...dreams of retracing Issey Miyake's path to New York City, students in Tokyo then yearned for Paris, the capital of modernity. By the turn of the century there was a tenacious Japanese painters' colony in Paris, and the big academic teaching studios that catered to foreign students -- Cormon's, Carolus-Duran's, Collin's -- all had, in addition to their stock of Americans, a number of Japanese students. Many of the students would have preferred to study with the new masters whose work was creating a modernist sensibility, but Van Gogh was dead, and Picasso did not teach...
Busts of William M. Chase, Walter Shirlaw, Clinton Ogilvy, H. K. Brown, J. Q. A. Ward, Carroll Beckwith, George Inness, Frank Duveneck have already been placed in the Library rotunda. The Whistler bust will be by Frederick MacMonnies, who knew Whistler intimately in student days at the Academic Cormon, Paris. Joseph Pennell, Whistler authority, and W. Francklyn Paris, architect, comprise the memorial committee...