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...group show in history has become more famous than the one staged in 1874 in the vacated Paris studios of Photographer Nadar. One look at the shocking works by such unknowns as Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Degas and Cézanne, and the critics doubled up with laughter. In Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, the critics found an epithet to pin on the upstarts: "impressionists...
...eight, spent most of his time at home drawing with colored pencils. At six he got his first oils for Christmas, was soon begging his mother to take him to the Louvre and the Museum of Modern Art. There, she remembers, he showed a marked liking for Sisley and Cézanne, and adds: "Thierry also likes flower shops and jewelry stores. If I didn't drag him away, he would stand there for hours gazing at the displays." Thierry thinks painting as simple as his other enthusiasm, soccer. Says he: "I like colors and I like football...
...painted the picture in 1869, when he was a young man and a failure, living in abject poverty and painting in perfect joy. Renoir used to drop in at Bougival with a loaf of bread to keep Monet going. Five years later, Monet and his friends-Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley, among others-staged a group show of their work that the French public greeted with howls of scorn. One critic had dubbed the bunch Impressionists after the title of a Monet painting: Impression-Rising...
Monet Was Generous. Berthe turned her home over to impressionism's rising lights. She befriended Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Pissaro; Claude Monet generously painted a large landscape for her when she mentioned that she needed something to decorate her studio. Pierre Auguste Renoir joined her circle while he was still painting china plates and window shades for a living. Berthe helped set up exhibits of the group's work, her own included, joined in organizing auctions, and spent hours trying to bring unfriendly critics around to impressionism...
...Died. Sisley Huddleston, 69, author (In My Time, With The Marshal) and for nearly 20 years between World Wars I and II European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor; of a heart attack; in Saint-Pierre-d'Autils, France. Throughout the Occupation he stayed in France, published The Myth of Liberty, an attack on the democracies, and won French citizenship from Vichyite Marshal Henri Pétain. In 1944, after the Normandy landing, he was arrested but subsequently released by Free French forces...