Hints and tips:
...“L’heure des bleus”, the opening section, pairs a group of Monet’s water gardens with Mitchell’s fluid panorama “Quatuor II for Betsy Jolas”....
...But when Durand was dying he forgot about Monet and Renoir and “imagined paradise as having the serene sweetness of a landscape by Camille Pissarro”....
...Anyone outside would have to carry an “attestation sur l'honneur”, a single sheet of paper filled out to give a valid reason for being outdoors....
...Predictably, appreciation came late — the first major successful show was dealer Paul Durand-Ruel’s in 1905....
...Around 1900 Monet turned his quest to Renoir’s now iconic “L’Algérienne”, portrait of Clémentine, wife of North African antiquities dealer Nathan Stora, dressed in Algerian-Jewish traditional costume, posed...
...– some absinthe from L’Epicerie. Le Grand Hotel (legrandhotelsète.com) has double rooms from €90....
...Their book, first published in French as L’Organisation Pirate, mixes historical anecdote and economic theory....
...A book recently published in France – L’Organisation Pirate by Rodolphe Durand and Jean-Philippe Vergne, both social scientists at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales – describes piracy as a recurrent...
...Giacometti’s imposing sculpture “L’Homme qui marche”, a lifetime cast from 1961 estimated at £12m-£18m, could shatter the world record for the artist....
...Alice’s collection includes paintings by Asher Durand, Winslow Homer, Charles Willson Peale and Marsden Hartley....
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