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...Outside the Church the great modern masters have walked-Manet, Cézanne, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Braque. The Church has not reached out, as once it would have, to bring them in. And here we have men who speak directly to the people with the same simple power of the great artists of the Middle Ages . . . These moderns are greater than the sensual men of the Renaissance." Father Couturier's superiors were impressed. "See what you can do," they told...
Sometimes, when entertaining at home with his art-collecting wife, Marie Whitney Harriman, ECA's European chief finds his guests distracted from weighty conversation. His salon is hung with a pink Renoir, a blue Picasso, a Van Gogh bowl of yellow tulips, and a Gauguin. Said one of his dinner guests, later: "God, how could I concentrate on what he was saying, with those around...
This week in Beverly Hills, the U.S. public got to see what had startled Motorist Lewenthal: a self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, one of the finest of the many he did, which had lain unknown for almost 60 years. It was a major find...
...Halo of Heat. Van Gogh did the picture at Aries, on Dec. 7, 1888, in the small hours of a restless night. He had been obsessed, he wrote his brother Theo, by a dream of painting himself by candlelight. He got up, lit a candle, put on his old green jacket and began to paint furiously; about three hours later he stopped, leaving the lower fourth of the portrait unpainted. Even unfinished, it was a work exploding with energy. Out of the dark haft of the body the bony head leaped like a candle flame; the face, green-eyed...
...many a U.S. artist (e.g., Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton) on to Christmas cards, De Beers diamonds ads, etc., offered to buy the picture for 50,000 francs (about $400 at the time). But the canny patron was in no hurry; after the painting was authenticated as Van Gogh's, he upped his price to a good bit more. Lewenthal paid the price, but for "two years of agony" he could not get the picture out of France. "Elements," he explains mysteriously, tried to bilk him of his find. Finally, last July, after a series of trips to France...