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...taste. He preferred to buy several small works by several good artists rather than one large oil that might have a greater impact on a museum wall. He liked self-portraits, and among the gems of the de Young's acquisitions are self-portraits by Courbet and Manet, who portrayed himself with a crown of thorns in a study that he never used for his painting of soldiers jeering Christ...
Early Impressionism. The Manet On the Beach is also an unusual work: an important example of the artist's conversion, in midcareer, to the informal open-air painting now known as Impressionism. Painted during the summer of 1873 on the seacoast of Berck-sur-Mer, its lighter palette and sketchier treatment present a striking departure from the indoor lighting and carefully worked-up details of the earlier, sensational Le déjeuner sur I'hérbe-an outdoor scene painted in the studio. Even the Rousseau is a little offbeat, though the famous Sunday painter of imaginary...
Nineteenth century French painting has never fitted neatly into art historians' annals. It was a century of variety and contradictions, blessed with an embarrassment of riches. Every decade had its transcendent master-David, Ingres, Delacroix, Courbet, Corot, Manet, Cézanne-whose force of personality outshone multitudes of minor but thoroughly accomplished painters. One artistic ism followed another, as Neo-classicism yielded to Romanticism, Realism to Impressionism...
...weekday, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is silent. Girls in white pinafores stare from the spacious brown canvas by John Singer Sargent across an empty room to the portraits on the opposite wall. A single spectator feels like an intruder, as he passes between a Renoir and a Manet, conversing peacefully in a cool windowless room...
...bring the Atheneum more up to date in art history. Conspicuously displayed in the new galleries and elsewhere were some of his acquisitions: Tony Smith's Amaryllis, Cezanne's Portrait of a Child, an important group of five Abstract Expressionist paintings, plus works by Pissarro, Schiele and Manet...