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February 14, 2010 |
Severely crippled by rheumatoid arthritis, 71-year-old painter Pierre- Auguste Renoir agreed in 1912 to one last attempt at walking. But when the doctor lifted him from his wheelchair, Renoir managed to go just a few steps before he told the doctor that to walk would take "all my willpower, and I would have none left for painting. If I have to choose between walking and painting, I'd much rather paint." Renoir never did walk again, filmmaker Jean Renoir recalled in his book, "Renoir, My Father," but he did paint successfully for many more years.
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February 15, 2013 |
Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of arguably the most famous art exhibition of the 20th century On Lexington Avenue at 25th Street in New York, the ad hoc Assn. of American Painters and Sculptors opened the International Exhibition of Modern Art on Feb. 17, 1913, beginning just under a monthlong run. Housed in the hulking brick headquarters of the 69th Infantry Regiment Armory, it quickly became known as simply the Armory Show. Or maybe not so simply. The Armory Show was hugely controversial.
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WORLD
May 21, 2010 |
A broken alarm system. A sawed-off padlock. A security video of a masked figure dressed in black slipping through a broken window. And empty picture frames leaning against a short stone wall facing the Seine. As dawn broke Thursday, authorities in the French capital had egg on their faces and a high-profile mystery on their hands: How did a thief slip into Paris' Art Deco-style Museum of Modern Art, across from the Eiffel Tower, avoid the three guards on duty and slip out with five paintings worth at least $100 million, among them works by Picasso and Matisse?
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October 17, 2012 |
Did inside information play an important role in one of the most brazen art heists in recent years? On Tuesday, thieves made off with works by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and others from a museum in the Netherlands city of Rotterdam. Tuesday's theft is also believed to include works by Gauguin and Lucian Freud. The heist reportedly took place in the early morning before public visiting hours. The total number of missing works currently stands at seven, according to reports. On Wednesday, CBS News interviewed Chris Marinello, director of the Art Loss Register , an organization that tracks stolen artwork, and he suggested that the thieves had inside information.
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September 13, 2012 |
Ken Price is one of the great American sculptors of the last half-century. Emblematic of his achievement is a brilliantly nuanced, multi-layered sculpture near the start of the exquisite retrospective of his career, now in members' previews and opening Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Made last year, the voluptuous linear form reclines horizontally like a Moorish odalisque by Matisse or a sybaritic bather in one of Ingres' Turkish harem...
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April 27, 1990 |
Steichen Heirs vs. Museum: The heirs of photography pioneer Edward Steichen, longtime benefactors to New York's Museum of Modern Art, are battling the museum over an $800,000 Henri Matisse painting that was bequeathed to the photographer's 6-year-old great-granddaughter. The painting was loaned to the museum in 1973 by Steichen's youngest daughter, Kate. But although she left it in her will to her grandniece, museum officials are refusing to give it back, saying it was meant as a permanent gift.
MAGAZINE
November 3, 1985
The colors are especially beautiful, and the entire issue a real lifter-upper. I'm a "senior" with not much $$, so it was a great treat. I shall frame the full-page photo of the Matisse. Helen Roser Los Angeles
ENTERTAINMENT
June 18, 1986
The celebrated art collection of Henry P. McIlhenny, who died on May 11, has been bequeathed in its entirety to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, at which McIlhenny served for 50 years as curator, trustee and, most recently, chairman of the board. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, furniture and decorative arts make up the collection, which includes masterpeides by Ingres, Delacroix, Degas, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec and Matisse.
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November 14, 1986 |
Milton Avery's claim to aesthetic fame is as Matisse's U.S. ambassador. A self-taught painter, Avery (1893-1965) played a seminal role in dispersing the French master's Post-Fauvist style to younger American artists in the '30s and '40s. At the top of his form, Avery created figure paintings from flat areas of color, suggesting form and gesture without detail and mollifying Matisse's crisp authority with shimmering pastel pillows of pigment.
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August 23, 2012 |
Necessity may be the mother of invention, especially when it's fueled by desperation. Humor helps, especially when it's devilish. These elements come together in “Canvas Panels: Part II,” Jonathon Hornedo's wickedly silly and wildly intelligent rendition of the downsizing that defines our times. Earlier this year, Hornedo got laid off. Sales of his paintings produced zero income. So he began making inexpensive, high-quality canvas panels, which he sold to other artists, who did what artists usually do with primed and stretched canvases: paint them.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 13, 2012 |
Ken Price is one of the great American sculptors of the last half-century. Emblematic of his achievement is a brilliantly nuanced, multi-layered sculpture near the start of the exquisite retrospective of his career, now in members' previews and opening Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Made last year, the voluptuous linear form reclines horizontally like a Moorish odalisque by Matisse or a sybaritic bather in one of Ingres' Turkish harem...
ENTERTAINMENT
August 23, 2012 |
Necessity may be the mother of invention, especially when it's fueled by desperation. Humor helps, especially when it's devilish. These elements come together in “Canvas Panels: Part II,” Jonathon Hornedo's wickedly silly and wildly intelligent rendition of the downsizing that defines our times. Earlier this year, Hornedo got laid off. Sales of his paintings produced zero income. So he began making inexpensive, high-quality canvas panels, which he sold to other artists, who did what artists usually do with primed and stretched canvases: paint them.
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July 20, 2012 |
A Henri Matisse painting stolen a decade ago from a museum in Venezuela has been recovered 1,300 miles away in Florida. Matisse's "Odalisque in Red Pants," worth $3 million, was taken from the Sofia Imber Contemporary Art Museum and replaced with a fake, CNN reports, although officials aren't sure how thieves lifted the 1925 masterpiece -- or when. On Tuesday, a man and woman allegedly tried to sell the artwork for $740,000 to an undercover FBI agent in Miami. Pedro Antonio Marcuello Guzman, 46, of Miami, and Maria Martha Elisa Ornelas Lazo, 50, of Mexico City, have been charged with transporting and possessing stolen property.
WORLD
October 9, 2011 |
A man suspected of hiding precious artwork stolen from the Paris Museum of Modern Art last year claims that in a panic, he threw the paintings into the garbage. Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, Matisse and Leger paintings stolen in May 2010, and worth about $134 million, may have been dumped in a garbage bin on a Paris street and destroyed with the rest of that day's trash, according to testimony by one of three suspects connected to the theft. The suspect, a 34-year-old watch repairman, was identified only as Jonathan B. by the French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche.
WORLD
May 21, 2010 |
A broken alarm system. A sawed-off padlock. A security video of a masked figure dressed in black slipping through a broken window. And empty picture frames leaning against a short stone wall facing the Seine. As dawn broke Thursday, authorities in the French capital had egg on their faces and a high-profile mystery on their hands: How did a thief slip into Paris' Art Deco-style Museum of Modern Art, across from the Eiffel Tower, avoid the three guards on duty and slip out with five paintings worth at least $100 million, among them works by Picasso and Matisse?
ENTERTAINMENT
February 14, 2010 |
Severely crippled by rheumatoid arthritis, 71-year-old painter Pierre- Auguste Renoir agreed in 1912 to one last attempt at walking. But when the doctor lifted him from his wheelchair, Renoir managed to go just a few steps before he told the doctor that to walk would take "all my willpower, and I would have none left for painting. If I have to choose between walking and painting, I'd much rather paint." Renoir never did walk again, filmmaker Jean Renoir recalled in his book, "Renoir, My Father," but he did paint successfully for many more years.
ENTERTAINMENT
February 12, 2006
CHRISTOPHER Knight's five steps for bringing the Getty into the life of L.A. ["Restoring Laurels Lost," Feb. 5] are wonderful. One of the best art essays I've read since I returned to L.A. 10 years ago. Here's my own sixth step: The Getty should go out and get three easel paintings, one each by Matisse, Picasso and Mondrian, the best that money can buy. R.B. KITAJ Los Angeles I think Christopher Knight was speaking of himself...
WORLD
February 24, 2009 |
Beneath the cupola of a Parisian palace in the shadow of a worldwide economic crisis, the world's top art buyers gathered Monday for a historic auction: the sale of 733 pieces of art owned by the late designer Yves Saint Laurent, valued at as much as $380 million. An Henri Matisse painting of a vase, titled "The Couscous, Blue Carpet and Rose," went for $40.6 million, the highest amount paid for any of the French artist's works.
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January 3, 2009 |
Thieves stole works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and others from a Berlin gallery over the New Year's holiday, police said Friday. More than 30 works, in total worth an estimated $250,000, were stolen, apparently between Wednesday afternoon and lunchtime Thursday, police spokeswoman Claudia Schweiger said. The artwork was taken from the Fasanengalerie, a private gallery near western Berlin's central shopping district. The etchings, prints and sculptures included "Profil au fond noir," a 1947 work by Picasso; "Nude in a rocking chair," a Matisse print from 1913; and "Le Boupeut," a 1962 color print by Georges Braque.
