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"Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!".(Art)(art exhibition review)
Some time ago, I was introduced to a very interesting and engaging man, a sort of modern-day Lorenzo de' Medici, who, like his distinguished Florentine predecessor, is an accomplished (and published) poet, a major supporter of poetry, a force in the world of international finance, and a passionate, eclectic collector of recent art. Curious about his choice of artists, I asked "Why do you collect?" Since the poet-financier's manner is notably modest, even shy, I was a little surprised when he replied "Arrogance. I believe my taste is better than anyone else's and I have the means to prove it." My surprise quickly changed to admiration. What better description of the ...
- A Meeting of the Minds; Small museums in France and America swap their best...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Plagens, Peter April 5, 2004 700+ words
...mounting "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection From the...painting.) Alas, the Bruyas-Courbet marriage...When "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!" was shown in...the controversy. Bruyas, surprisingly naive...
- What is Courbet?(art exhibition)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Krebber, Michael May 1, 2008 700+ words
...Rencontre, or Bonjour Monsieur Courbet--whose title the...1868, the year Alfred Bruyas donated the work to...meeting with Alfred Bruyas, the congenial art...painting that shows Bruyas, the painter himself...the title: Bonjour Monsieur Courbet. This is the source...
- Art exchange reinforces French-U.S. museum ties.(Front Page)
- Magazine article from: Art in America March 1, 2004 700+ words
...Montpellier, "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!," opens at the Virginia...1876 by collector Alfred Bruyas, who was among the first...1854 painting Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!, featuring a portrait of Bruyas, is the centerpiece of...
- Frame up.(Connoisseur's World)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Tuchman, Phyllis April 1, 2004 700+ words
...their art to France. Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!, FRAME's latest show, which...collections that arts patron Alfred Bruyas donated in 1868 and 1876 to the...Courbet (Bathers; Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet; and seven other oils), Delacroix...
- The most arrogant artist in France: the impressive retrospective that has just...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Zutter, Jorg March 1, 2008 700+ words
...work. In the group portrait Bonjour Monsieur Courbet (1855) he celebrates his new partnership...Montpellier-based collector Alfred Bruyas (who bequeathed his entire collection...Mediterranean landscape. In a letter sent to Bruyas in 1853 on the occasion of the collector...
- 2004/05 preview: museum preview.(Directory)
- Magazine article from: Art in America August 1, 2004 700+ words
Summer Courbet and Friends "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet," features some 100 19th-century works from the Music...Montpellier, assembled by Courbet's friend and patron Alfred Bruyas. Making their U.S. debut are important pieces by Delacroix...
- Calendar.(Calendar)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Luhrs, Kathleen March 1, 2005 700+ words
...of Fashion from the Court of Louis XIV"; March 12 to June 26. SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection from the Musee Fabre, Montpellier [France]"; to April 3.* [??] "Windows Facing East...
- Gustave Courbet: France's fearless provocateur: the radical and rebellious...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) May 1, 2008 700+ words
...disregard for perspective. In "The Meeting," or "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet" (1854), Courbet represents what likely is an imagined...between the noted collector of 19th-century art, Alfred Bruyas, and the artist, who had come to visit him in Montpellier...
