Word: impressionists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vincent Van Gogh by Marc Edo Tralbaut. 350 pages. Viking. $40. The tortured impressionist painter is so well known that to present him to the public again, one critic has observed, would be like presenting Christ to Christians. Nevertheless this is a splendid job. Calling upon more than 50 years of devoted research, the Belgian art scholar Marc Edo Tralbaut has put together the most satisfying study of Van Gogh's life and works...
...though he appreciated style, he did not care for the showy. Sometimes his predilections led him astray. He owned, for instance, ten works by the American painter John Carroll, whose wispy, willowy ladies were scarcely top quality even in their own time. Nevertheless, there are enough first-rate impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the Tannahill collection to make any museum happy-especially the Detroit Institute. "One of our most worrisome gaps has been in the area of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists," says Director Willis F. Woods. Adds Assistant Director Cummings: "Now we can compete with Chicago...
...Smothers' time slot last week. Now, at 26, she has emerged with a sweet, sassy authority that is just right for a variety-hour headlmer. She sang Those Were the Days with a panache that made the Mary Hopkin original seem lifeless. She played willing straight girl to Impressionist David Frye's show-stealing rendition of William F. Buckley Jr. She starred in "Sugar Hill," a slice-of-life sketch that will be a feature of the series; the opener was more pungent than The Goldbergs, if not in a class with The Honeymooners...
...recalls. "And every so often, we would go off with paintboxes and folding easels-not as camp, but as serious passion. To try and get some farm or field in Vermont or New Jersey onto the canvas looking exactly as it did, within the limits of our quasi-Impressionist style...
...bought a grimy oil of a couple of nudes at the flea market in Paris for $40, only to discover a long-lost Monet hidden beneath it? The find was fully restored and authenticated by experts at the respected Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig. One of the great impressionist's Gare St. Lazare paintings, it was dated 1877 and worth possibly $1,000,000. Well, last week Kiesel gleefully announced that it was all a rib. An artist friend had first removed the original scene of two nudes sunbathing, then faked in Monet's scene, "aged...