Monday 9 July 2012

A Goldmine of Images

degas self portrait new

Self-Portrait, c.1857-58 by Edgar Degas. Photograph: © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts



http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jul/08/paris-impressionism-paintings-clark-review

This article, singing the praises of American art collector Sterling Clark, contains many links to works by Degas, Manet and Monet, whose impressionistic styles I find enticing and interesting. The aptly named Sterling was obviously a man of more taste than money, which is impressive considering he was the heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune and owned an entire block of Manhatten before he was twenty...

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