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This charismatic exhibition celebrates revolutionary works by Monet, Degas, Morisot, Cézanne and more
Degas and Cézanne dominate a London exhibition of works that lifted the status of drawing and made it fundamental to their art
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...Speaking on the phone from Paris, celebrity chef and restaurateur Pierre Gagnaire, who consulted on the food in The Taste of Things, says that the sound of pastry cracking is “the total opposite of Instagram...
...The national galleries that line the building’s perimeter, given a midcentury makeover in the late 1960s by the French architect Pierre Vivien, have also been saved – largely thanks to the intervention of...
...richest Japanese person on the Forbes list comes in at number 30 In December 1989, just two weeks before the Nikkei peaked, Yasumichi Morishita spent $100mn on paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste...
...Until March 25; further information and tickets here ‘Antony Gormley: Critical Mass’, Musée Rodin The British sculptor has described Auguste Rodin’s influence on his creative development as “a key source...
...Auguste Rodin was an instructive exception: the sculptor was apparently kept in freezing conditions at his studio in Meudon because his long-suffering partner hoped it would suppress his undiscerning libido...
...The artist (as Proust wrote of Pierre-Auguste Renoir in The Guermantes Way, the third volume of In Search of Lost Time) finishes the work and says to us: “Now look”....
...Auguste Escoffier wanted to be a sculptor, but he was sent to work in his uncle’s restaurant at the age of 13....
...She won the admiration of everyone from Auguste Rodin — who declared her “a woman of genius!”...
...He sounds like exactly the sort of character who would have attracted the attention of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, many of whose later paintings found their inspiration here....
...other extreme, “Jewellery Tree”, an assemblage juxtaposing trinkets, replicas of Nelson’s medals, plastic coffee lid, crushed beer can, by Nicole Eisenman, who claims inspiration from “queer culture and Pierre-Auguste...
...The Enlightenment naturalist Pierre Daubenton wrote that good pears were “infinitely superior to the finest apples”....
...sculpture, was the aim; Rodin’s energetic modelling, bold distortions and elongations of features and limbs — with raw surfaces with clay sometimes showing beneath the bronze, as in “Eustache de Saint-Pierre...
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...The move to sell the works was “primarily an ecological decision”, says Pierre Martin-Vivier, vice-president at Christie’s France....
...Officine Générale Auguste shirt, £190, from mrporter.com I always wear the scent Santal 33 by Le Labo....
...But it was Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre (1928-32) that really showed off what the material could do....
...Pierre-Auguste was 53 when his son was born, and died in 1919 when he was 25. As a child Jean often posed for portraits in his father’s studio....
...After he moved to Nice in 1917, Henri Matisse began making weekly trips to Cagnes to visit the elderly, widowed, wraithlike, paralysed Pierre-Auguste Renoir during the two years before his death in 1919....
...Pierre-Auguste Renoir briefly had a studio here in the late 19th century and, for a longer period, it was the workplace of Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo, Emile Bernard and other artists....
...Along with a small, fiery landscape by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir nearby, it is one of Andresen’s favourite things....
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