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Tuesday, 03 October 2023

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One family’s battle to be reunited with art looted by the Nazis

Auburnpub dot com 02 Oct 2023

For Claire, a now-70-year-old Jewish French woman living in Paris, it was the beginning of a 13-year battle to track down her grandfather’s stolen art, including precious paintings by 19th-century Fauvist artist André Derain and another by the Impressionist master Claude Monet.

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New Van Gogh show in Paris focuses on artist’s extraordinarily productive and tragic final months

The Associated Press 02 Oct 2023

Van Gogh churned out an astounding 74 paintings, among them some of his masterpieces, in a mere 72 days while living in the French ...

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New Van Gogh show in Paris focuses on artist's extraordinarily productive and tragic final months

San Francisco Chronicle 02 Oct 2023

Van Gogh churned out an astounding 74 paintings, among them some of his masterpieces, in a mere 72 days while living in the French ...

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‘It’s a very rich story’: the complicated connection between Manet and Degas

The Observer 02 Oct 2023

In addition to being contemporaries who each produced storied masterpieces that were instrumental in the development of Impressionism, French painters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas also shared complicated personal and professional relationships that were of great importance in their social lives and artistic careers.

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Paint drops form “fried egg” patterns if concentration, temp is just right

Ars Technica 02 Oct 2023

/ As paint drops dry, they can look like a “fried egg” (left) or develop a more even pigment distribution (right). (credit. S.M.M ... French scientists have been watching paint drops dry and monitoring the resulting patterns in hopes of finding ways to better control the drying process to reduce cracks and other imperfections ... Comments .

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The Otherworldly Work of Mitsuru Watanabe

Victoria Advocate 02 Oct 2023

New Paintings on View at Rehs Contemporary in New York City ... a pair of paintings created in 1563 ... This work draws from the timeless masterpiece "La Bohémienne Endormie," or "The Sleeping Gypsy," one of the most famous paintings created by French Post-Impressionist Henri Rousseau.

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The World According to Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell review – bits and pieces of ...

The Guardian 02 Oct 2023

A pair of faux tortoiseshell Céline sunglasses – in 2015, at the age of 80, Didion famously became the unsmiling new face of the French fashion house – were sold for $27,000. The most expensive lot was a portrait of Didion painted, not by one of the famous artists whose work hung ...

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2023 Porsche Classic Restoration Challenge winners crowned at Rennsport Reunion 7

Enid News & Eagle 02 Oct 2023

The cooling fan was painted Speed Yellow, to match the reimagined leather interior accented with Speed Yellow French stitching ... To the naked eye the paint looked good, though the interior needed some work ... The car had been painted at least once before, and most of the bodywork that was done had not been done well.

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The World According to Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell review – bits and pieces of a literary pioneer

The Observer 02 Oct 2023

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What to do this week: Free flu shots, an UNO tournament and more

Washington Square News 02 Oct 2023

Learn about the history of American dance. 111 Amsterdam Ave. 6 p.m ... Online. 6.30 p.m ... Noon ... 6 p.m ... Experience the premiere of a painting exhibition ... See the beautiful works of the classic French painters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas in a virtual premiere of an exhibition featuring over 150 works, “Manet/Degas,” hosted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... X.

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Cleveland Museum of Art explores gritty side of Impressionism in ‘Degas and the Laundress’

Cleveland 01 Oct 2023

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art wants to complicate and confound your impressions of French Impressionist painting ... On the surface, the painting seems an example of Degas’s spectacular skills as a draftsman, and his ability to capture the casual, lifelike gestures and attitudes of his subjects.

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National Gallery of Ireland sought €2m from State to buy Paul Cezanne painting

Irish Independent 01 Oct 2023

Bosses of the National Gallery ...

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Local notes: OLLI visits museum; Fenix names director

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 01 Oct 2023

Historical Museum. The Bella Vista Historical Museum is hosting Plein Aire Painters of the Ozarks from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 11 around the Settler's Cabin at the museum, 1885 Bella Vista Way. En plein aire is a French expression which means 'in the open air'. It is used particularly to describe the act of painting outdoors ... Information. jxlucas@cox.net ... Oct.

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Brigham City Museum of Art and History opens new plein air exhibit

HJ News 30 Sep 2023

30, the paintings will be on display for the public. “En plein air” is French for “In the open air” and plein air art is meant to be created just that way. The 27 paintings in the exhibit celebrate the beauty of nature and the 11 artists entering the competition were required to paint their entries entirely outdoors.

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Road Trips & Recipes: Monet immersion arts excursion in Cincinnati

Auburnpub dot com 28 Sep 2023

The Immersive Experience (monetexpo.com/cincinnati) and the world of Claude Monet (1840-1926), preeminent founder of French impressionist painting ... The latter holds a collection that spans the Middle Ages through the 19th century with European and American paintings, and 18th-century watches, Chinese porcelains and French Renaissance enamels.