henri matisse

6 Things I Learned About Painting From the Met's...

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Alanna Martinez

Last week, I finally visited the Met’s stellar exhibition, “Matisse: In Search of True Painting.” The show was, as I hoped, a refreshingly engaging experience that breaks down Henri Matisse’s meticulous and academic painting process into sections,...

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A Giacometti Lamppost and Gerard Depardieu's Miro...

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ARTINFO France

PARIS — Under the watchful eye of auctioneer François de Ricqlès, Christie's totaled €12.9 million ($16.5 million) during two sales in Paris this week: The Moch collection and another, unnamed private collection were auctioned off on Tuesday, while Wednesday...

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Cannes Spotlights Family Drama About the 16-Year-Old...

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Graham Fuller

It wasn’t likely that the Cannes film festival organizers would be able to resist scheduling a film about the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Jean Renoir, the second of his three sons and the greatest French director of them all.Gilles Bourdos...

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A Masterpiece, Most Likely: Hoberman on Robert Bresson...

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J. Hoberman

“The Devil, Probably,” one of the great Robert Bresson’s greatest, and least-seen, movies gets a week-long run (April 20-26) in the midst of BAMcinématek’s Bresson retrospective — resplendent in a new 35mm print and hailed by no less an authority than...