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There are certain works of art, like the two portraits of Baudelaire in the exhibition, (a lithograph by Rouault and an etching by Manet), which sum up the pleasure of collecting. Perhaps motives of sentiment lie behind these choices as well as aesthetic discretion. This is perfectly legitimate. Rouault and Les Fleur du Mal strike a rich chord. It is just this sort of thing which lends collecting an added charm...
...might have startled Henry James. Realist though Homer is. says Gardner, he probably got his great inspiration from the same source that sparked the School of Paris: Japanese prints. Homer lived in Paris in 1867, must have been aware of the fashion for things Japanese, which had already led Manet to simplify, sharpen and contract his pictured scenes. Homer inwardly resolved to do the same. Gardner believes, but like a Yankee, "he chose to keep his mouth shut...
...Edouard Manet's La Rue de Berne was knocked down to Georges Keller of Manhattan's Carstairs Gallery for $316,400, highest recorded price ever for a Manet. (Goldschmidt paid $64,000 in 1931.) Two other routine Manets also soared up into this fiscal stratosphere; one brought $182,000, the other...
Footlights & Picnics. Within the impressionists' circle, Manet and Monet together set off what Curator Bazin calls the "Cycle of Picnics," notes: "No school of painting has ever taken so much trouble to describe the life of its contemporaries, to show them their own pleasures, to help them forget their sorrows. No school of painting was ever so optimistic...
Accepted abroad in Berlin, New York and Chicago while still suspect in Paris, the impressionists fought for Louvre recognition under the leadership of Claude Monet, who spearheaded a subscription movement to buy Manet's famed nude Olympia for the nation. Accepted in 1890 after heated argument, Olympia was hung in the Luxembourg Palace, then the waiting room for the main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion...