Tag Archives: Cézanne

Cézanne’s The Large Bathers, 1906, devoid of slick finish and slick emotion, is rife with contradictions.
Looking at Art

Bathers But Not Beauties

By Posted 05/24/12

Cézanne’s nude figures in a landscape are meant to disturb rather than delight us Read More

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Market

A Gambler with Guts

By Posted 12/15/11

A new book recounts how Ernst Beyeler became one of the world’s most powerful modern-art dealers Read More

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Looking at Art

Turning Over a New Leaf

By Posted 12/01/11

When the Ming succumbed to the Qing, many rebel scholar-artist-officials became landscape painters who forged new, singular styles Read More

Untitled, 2009, a haunting work in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. COURTESY GREENE NAFTALI GALLERY, NEW YORK
Profiles

A Minimalist Maximalist

By Posted 08/15/11

In large abstract paintings, Jacqueline Humphries puts a contemporary spin on the AbEx and Minimalist tradition. Read More

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Features

Fighting for Their Rights

By Posted 04/01/08

The modernist masterpieces of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov were nationalized by the Bolsheviks and are now on view in a celebrated and controversial exhibition at London’s Royal Academy. The heirs’ efforts to compel the Russian state to provide them with “reasonable compensation” has become an international legal and political issue. Read More

After The Scream was stolen from the Munch Museum, this reproduction appeared at the Guggenheim—as part of a 2006 campaign launching dark chocolate M&M’s. A reward of 2 million M&M’s was offered for the picture’s recovery.
Investigations

‘The Scream,’ the Thief, and the 2 Million M&M’s

By Posted 04/01/08

Stolen masterpieces are priceless and worthless at the same time—they’re too hot to sell, and have limited use as collateral. But one criminal tried to use them to sweeten his sentence. Read More