Word: gauguins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were enough to make a collector see green. The 45 paintings brought in $874,000 (plus $147,000 in taxes), three times as much as the auctioneer had anticipated, and one of the canvases was sold for the highest known price ever paid for a modern painting. The painting: Gauguin's Still Life with Apples. (1901), a platter of succulent, Cézannesque green apples on an opulent green tablecloth. It went to Greek-American Shipping Executive Basil Peter Goulandris for $297,000 (plus 16.7% in taxes). Mrs. Biddle had bought the Gauguin in 1953 at Manhattan...
...Gauguin's Landscape with Rose Tree, Pont-Aven...
Though not nearly so talented as Gauguin, Bernard was much more articulate. Young Bernard's theories fired the older painter's imagination, prodded him to formulate his own ideas, and drove him to experiment on canvas. The two friends painted together at Pont-Aven, feverishly discussed their daily discoveries. That summer Gauguin made the major stylistic break of his life, began painting in the style that was to make him famous...
...Traitor." The break between Gauguin and Bernard came when Gauguin proclaimed himself, in Bernard's words, "the chief of the symbolist school in painting," and Bernard felt that he had been betrayed. Years after the event Bernard recalled that his indignant sister tackled Gauguin in the middle of an auction room. "Monsieur Gauguin," she cried, "you are a traitor. You have violated your pledge and are doing the greatest harm to my brother, who has been the true initiator of the art which you now claim for yourself." According to Bernard, "Gauguin did not answer, and withdrew...
...Gauguin kept going toward the unknown and soared to fame-posthumously. Bernard, becoming enamored of Italian Renaissance masters, and veering toward mysticism, turned back toward safer paths and sank to obscurity. Though he lived to a ripe 72 (and was a key figure in bringing Van Gogh's work to public attention), Bernard never again painted with the vigor and originality of the Pont-Aven days, which ended half a century before his death...