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Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir. Life with a great impressionist painter and a charmingly quirky parent, fondly recollected by his gifted...
...quirky character of the great impres sionist painter, fondly reported by his gifted son, makes this one of the best biographies of the year...
...airily announced that she was going out to buy an El Greco. With her was Mary Cassatt, the noted American impressionist, who was helping the Have meyers build their great art collection. Said Sugar Tycoon Havemeyer: "You had better add a Goya while you are about it." Replied Painter Cassatt: "Perhaps we may. Who knows?" And with that, the two ladies swept out of the room and off to their mission...
...Edith Halpert was just about the only woman dealer; now there are many. One striking figure in the invasion is Grace Borgenicht, whose excellent gallery shares a building with Bella Fishko's no-nonsense Forum Gallery and Mrs. Jill Kornblee's offbeat Kornblee Gallery. A sometime painter herself, Grace Borgenicht began going around with a crowd of artists in 1947 that included Jimmy Ernst, Gabor Peterdi and Milton Avery. All three joined up with her when she opened her gallery in 1951. To these she has added such stars as Leonard Baskin, Sculptor José de Rivera...
Novelist Bell writes this way, and it must have seemed to him that the technique was ideally suited to his scheme, which was to portray a marriage as the turbulent confluence of two mighty streams of lineage. Daniel (Southerner, painter, battler with Furies) and Lucy (descendant of Philadelphians, Quaker, placid repository of honor) have been married for several years when family duty demands a temporary separation. He flies to Mississippi to straighten out the affairs of a dotty aunt; she travels to the bedside of a stern Quaker uncle. The distance between husband and wife and their return to their...