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Tag Archives: art history
Busman’s Holiday
Two days before the official beginning of spring 2021, I decided to leave my lockdown quarters in Brooklyn Heights and visit my home away from home: the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I took a taxi and was shocked along the … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art history, art museums, corot, ingres, klimt, looted art, memling, metropolitan museum of art, nazi looted art
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Georges Seurat’s Circus Sideshow at the Met
Georges Seurat was a visionary. He applied primary colors in tiny dots, and ended up with unbelievably beautiful novel textures and shades. His technique was based on the theory of the color wheel and as a reaction to the spontaneous, … Continue reading
Posted in Art review
Tagged art, art auctions, art collecting, art collection, art exhibits, art history, art institute of chicago, art museums, art sales, arts, circus sideshow, divisionism, fine art, fine arts, french art, georges seurat, impressionism, john quinn, metropolitan museum, metropolitan museum of art, modern art, modernism, moma, museum of modern art, museums, neo-impressionism, pointillism, seurat, the met
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Max Beckmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Thank God this painting is in New York,” Sabine Rewald kept repeating as she led a flock of reporters through the magnificent exhibition of Max Beckmann paintings that she had curated for the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Given … Continue reading
Posted in Art review
Tagged art, art collection, art exhibits, art history, art museums, degenerate art, fine art, german art, german expressionism, german expressionists, german jewish history, germany, max beckmann, met museum, metropolitan museum, metropolitan museum of art, modern art, museum of modern art, nazi germany, paintings
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Sotheby’s 2015 Impressionist and Modern Art Auction: The Joy of a Making-Believe Billionaire
Art from the collections of Jerome H. Stone, a Chicago entrepreneur, Lola Sarnoff, the Samuel Goldwyn family, and Anthony Goldschmidt led off Sotheby’s spring auction. The latter included a Monet looted from Jacob Goldschmidt by the Nazis in 1941. It … Continue reading
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Tagged abby aldrich rockefeller, america's medicis, american art, art, art auctions, art collecting, art exhibits, art history, art museums, auctions, fine art, impressionism, modern art, Monet, museum of modern art, new york, new york city, nyc art exhibits, picasso, sotheby's, vincent van gogh
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