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...Charles-François Daubigny’s “Fields in June” (1874), a Salon success, rivals Monet’s “Poppies” for animation and chromatic intensity; Daubigny had resigned from the Salon jury in protest at Monet’s exclusion...
...March 13 to August 11; further information and tickets here ‘Paris 1874: Inventing impressionism’, Musée d’Orsay Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley and Cézanne broke the mould in 1874 when...
...see . . . you in the character of Charles Swann.”...
...“Mme Berthe Morisot is French by distinction, elegance, cheerfulness, carelessness,” wrote collector Charles Ephrussi....
...Joaquín Sorolla’s serene swimmer emerges from a luminous sea like a modern “Birth of Venus” in “After the Bath”, and polychrome sculptures of a fervent Mary and Jesus carved by 17th-century nun Andrea de...
...Highlights in London included two guaranteed trademark Monet paintings — “Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume” (1904) and “Nymphéas, temps gris” (1907) — which each sold within their estimates at £26mn (£30.1mn...
...And I like a very low-key brand from Singapore called Charles & Keith. I don’t do skinny heels....
...A prototype for Charles Swann in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Charles was an aesthete, art historian and collector who spent his writing days in a Chinese dressing gown and his nights in party finery...
...The rebranding rolls out on May 11, marked by an evening auction of 20th-century work led by Monet’s “Waterloo Bridge, effet de brouillard” (1899-1903), the view from his Savoy Hotel window, estimated at...
...But, in the more ordered language of a square canvas bisected by a bridge, it is where Monet points in 1899....
...“Oh, if Flaubert had been a painter,” Monet exclaimed in moments of struggle. A prelude to Rouen’s show could be a visit to the Manets, Monets and Courbets at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay....
...Her creator, Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, better known as Quino, who has died at the age of 88, captured the spirit of a generation roiled by regional political and economic turmoil....
...The small, smart dining room is covered in frescoes by fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, and the cuisine is elegant and sustainable, with an emphasis on seafood and locally sourced ingredients...
...“Everything changes, even stone,” Monet groaned....
...When Hansen first arrived in the French capital, the great Impressionist survivors Degas, Renoir and Monet were still alive....
...longing for serenity: Canova’s idealised life-size “Terpsichore” celebrating the muse of dance, and “Cliffs at Pourville, Sunrise”, a vaporous pale pink light, hardly real, enveloping rocks and sea that Monet...
...I search in vain for Paris,” wrote the poet Charles Valette) and Dinocrates’ ancient Alexandria....
...There is glamour here, too: Caponi has supplied Prince Charles and Madonna....
...São Paulo resident Ricardo José de Abreu, 58, used to work with transport apps such as Uber but stopped when the pandemic began....
...These included this year’s top-priced work, Claude Monet’s haystack painting “Meules” (1890), which went for $97m at Sotheby’s....
...In the second category is a drawing by Pierre Charles Trémolières, who might have gained greater renown had he lived beyond the age of 36....
...Roberts in turn influenced the slightly younger Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder....
...A trio of paintings by the Impressionist leader — “Le Pointe de la Heve, Sainte-Adresse” (1864), “The Shore at Sainte-Adresse” (1864) and “La Pointe de la Heve at Low Tide” (1865) — were, like Daubigny’s...
...Le marchand de violettes”, for example, versus Monet’s “Camille au jardin avec Jean et sa bonne”, in which the artist’s family are enclosed in interwoven veils and patterns of colour denoting the intimate...
...The coup de grâce of Painting the Modern Garden is Monet’s “Agapanthus” triptych, the three panels brought together for the first time in the UK....
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