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...been known to take his mind off political worries by acquiring an occasional painting. Last week a London gossip columnist delighted in detailing a recent Gaitskell purchase: a nude painting of attractive Lady Coldstream, 26, sometime model and fulltime wife of Fine Arts Professor Sir William Coldstream, 53. The painter, Anthony Man. labored to defend the conservative nature of Gaitskell's buy. "Mind you," said Man, "it's not a nudey nude of the 'Oh, I'm shivering because it's cold' type. It's a side view, really a very discreet affair...
...know the painter at Ravoux's, the one we call Le Rouquin [The Redhead]? He has shot himself with a pistol in the park behind the chateau." So, recalls 89-year-old Henry Maurage, the news that Vincent Van Gogh was dead swept through the obscure town of Auvers-sur-Oise one Sunday in July 1890. Since then the small town where Van Gogh ended his tortured life and the tiny room where he lived have become historical shrines...
Today popular taste is fast catching up to the harsh bite and passion of Germany's most mystical modern painter. A month-long show of 244 Nolde works in Brussels this spring drew 4,600 viewers, despite one critical comment that his colors are too "grating and jazzy for Flemish eyes." Last week a seven-week exhibition of Nolde's work opened in Hannover to critical acclaim. Long neglected, Nolde's restless watercolors and agitated oils are now bringing record prices, reflecting his new popular ascendancy as one of the best of the German expressionists...
...sunny region on the border of Spain the word "maillol" means "young vine beside the sea." Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol was born in the village of Banyuls-sur-Mer, where his grandfather had operated as a smuggler. At 19 he set out for Paris to become a painter, and though he quickly became disgusted with his classes at the School of Fine Arts ("I painted more apples than Cézanne. This was the time of the apple, a period in which we wasted our time"), he found impressive support on the outside. Gauguin encouraged him; Vuillard, Bonnard and Matisse...
...hero is first seen as a hotheaded and rather surly 17-year-old who is already the favorite apprentice of the local master painter in Leyden and is conceited enough to blurt: "Either I am a second Michelangelo or I'm an ass!" What follows is the detailed story of his success (when he wins his first noble patron), his failure (when his celebrated Night Watch insults prominent members of the local militia, whose faces he partially hid in the background), and his Job-like sufferings. One by one, father, mother, crippled brother and spinster sister go to their...