Word: gauguins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early keyed his private purchases to the museum's future needs. Over the years Hanna gave the museum 1,075 pieces, ranging from furniture, textiles and glass to such prime paintings as El Greco's Christ on the Cross with Landscape, Degas' Frieze of Dancers, Gauguin's Tahitian-period The Call, Picasso...
...aura of epic (and of late, cinematic) drama hovers over the struggles, achievements and major breakthroughs of such 19th century greats as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne, on whose vision modern art largely rests. Less known but of no less importance was Georges Seurat, born in 1859, who made it his goal to weld science and art into a technique of dot, dab and stitch strokes that would not only challenge the glowing canvases of the impressionists but be a compendium of what was known in his day of optics, color and psychology...
...long has this been going on?" asked the late advertising tycoon Albert Davis Lasker (onetime head of Lord & Thomas), one afternoon in 1943. Before him, set up on easels in Manhattan's Wildenstein galleries, stood a $70,000 Gauguin and a $45,000 Renoir. For the man who made such products as Lucky Strike, Palmolive, Pepsodent, Kleenex and Kotex into household words, the world of art was opening. On hand to coach and whet his appetite was his wife Mary, who had majored in art at Radcliffe, gone on to help run a Manhattan gallery...
...went into business for himself. He was soon collecting art. Just before the fall of France, he sailed for the U.S. (where he changed his name to Lurcy), managed to smuggle out 38 paintings by way of Portugal. In the U.S. he bought paintings by Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gauguin at the bottom of the wartime market. Said a Frenchwoman who knew him well, "Georges, intelligent? He invented the word...
...Alex Goulandris, second cousin to Basil Goulandris whose $297,000 for Gauguin's Still Life with Apples set a new high (TIME, June 24), stepped into the ranks of top Greek buyers by purchasing a Matisse for $25,000, Bonnard's Still Life with Cat (appraised at $50,000) for $70,000, and Gauguin's Tahitian scene, Man Taporo...