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...Manet's The Artist, though painted only eight years before his death, is a provocative contrast to the broadly stroked, flatly patterned pictures that any gallerygoer can identify across the room as a Manet. Marcellin Desboutin was a witty, talented engraver, and one of Manet's close friends. The uncharacteristically detailed features, the brooding eyes, perhaps reflect Manet's special affection for his model...
...Larger Audience. In the patient backs of the garment workers there are echoes of Daumier and Degas, while the light of Levine's Coney Island is haunted by the shades of Manet and Prendergast. Yet in choosing a 19th century idiom to depict the fast-disappearing world of hand-labor shops and nostalgic memories of big-city beaches, Levine is, after all, doing only what any artist must-suiting style to subject...
...irony is that it is not necessary to buy photographic reproductions to get "serious" work for one's serious study. Originals can be bought and rented for very reasonable prices and are amazingly exciting to have. Etchings and engravings by Picasso, Modigliani, Manet, Chagall, etc., original works, can be bought for less than twenty dollars at Retina Gallery, Fabrications, and at Gropper Gallery along Mass. Ave., just to name a few. These are small works and may come at the end of fifty or even a hundred impressions. But they are the right size for small rooms and very satisfying...
...very mention of photography has long repelled serious easel painters, despite the fact that Corot, Cézanne and Manet all made use of the camera. Corot got the idea for his blurry landscapes from seeing an early silver print. Cézanne used photographs for his self-portraits. Manet painted his famed Execution of Emperor Maximilian from a news photograph...
...avid collector, Los Angeles Industrialist Norton W. Simon, 61, over the past four months alone has acquired, among other art works, a Picasso, two Cezannes, three Pissarros and a millon-dollar Manet. As a company collector, Simon has been buying up businesses for years. Now, he is forming the bulk of his collection into one assemblage. Last week the directors of his Hunt Foods & Industries and two companies it controls-McCall Corp. and Canada Dry Corp.-agreed to form a single company, which will be called Norton Simon...