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...University also honored Joan Miro, Spanish born painter well-known for his role in surrealism...
This reunion is not Harvard's 25th but Painting in France 1900-1967, the current exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which brings together a terribly impressive roster of painters who have worked in France during this century. With the peculiar arrogance of the French, everyone who has painted within her borders is fair game for the show and just about every major European painter of the century is included. And with the peculiar canniness of the French, they are right. Somehow France is the place where people go to escape, to change, to be alone...
Died. Kees van Dongen, 91, Dutch-born painter, one of the earliest and wildest of Paris' turn-of-the-century Fauves (wild beasts); of pneumonia; in Monte Carlo. Along with his friends Georges Braque and Henri Matisse, Van Dongen rebelled against 19th century impressionism, filling his canvases with slashing brush strokes and raucous colors that enraged critics but fascinated gallery goers; and while some of the other Fauves went on to cubism, Van Dongen settled for becoming court painter ("I paint the women slimmer and their jewels fatter") for the international set, turning out glittering portraits of such luminaries...
History has tended to side with Byron. Nonetheless, buried beneath West's studied claptrap lurks considerable native talent. This gift shines forth in an exhibit of 36 rarely seen drawings, many of them owned until recently by descendants of the painter in England, now at Manhattan's Bernard Black Gallery. Since the drawings are mostly landscapes or sketches for larger compositions, the gallery placed them, wherever possible, next to a photocopy of the finished work. The demonstration is plain: as West's ideas progressed from initial draft to finished sketch to final oil, faces froze, bodies puffed...
...fanciers, led by Retailer Hans Joachim Ziersch, 53, bought, for $380,000, the 20-room villa built by Franz von Stuck, and restored its public rooms and part of its atelier with another $250,000. At the turn of the century, Von Stuck was Germany's most fashionable painter, earning the equivalent of $250,000 a year. His slickly lecherous nymphs and centaurs were snapped up by wealthy industrialists, his portraits commissioned by royalty, and his banquets were compared to Roman Bacchanalia. Von Stuck's million-mark palazzo, begun in 1896, fell into decay after his death...