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Wall Street Journal
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Wild Thing' Review: The Sorcery of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux's gruesomely fascinating 'Wild Thing' begins with four teeth in a well. Local inhabitants of Hiva Oa, in French Polynesia, found them in 2000 while restoring the nearby hut in which Paul Gauguin lived. Scientific analysis proved the teeth were indeed the famed painter's. When Gauguin died in 1903, he had been on Hiva Oa for two years. All his life he had been in pursuit of wild things. Born in Paris in 1848, he had spent several childhood years with his maternal family in Lima, Peru. For the rest of his life, he would belligerently call himself 'a savage from Peru.' Gauguin always considered himself an outsider. Even while thriving as a young Parisian stockbroker, his amateur painting defied rules. In early works such as 'The Market Gardens of Vaugirard' (1879), he rejected the tight, smooth realism of Academic art and caught up with the variegated brushwork and unblended colors of his mentor, the Impressionist Camille Pissarro. Several of the core Impressionists incubated the generation after theirs, even though the post-Impressionists were moving rapidly toward distinct and remarkably individual styles. The last of the Impressionist exhibitions, held in 1886 and financed in large part by Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot, launched not only the career of Gauguin but also Georges Seurat, with the latter's monumental 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte' (1886). Degas would be one of Gauguin's most stalwart collectors for the rest of his life. Post-Impressionism quickly delivered more than its fair share of images that have stayed in our collective imagination. By 1889, Vincent van Gogh, who had attended the 1886 exhibition and tried to become Gauguin's friend, had painted 'The Starry Night.'
Euronews
11-03-2025
- General
- Euronews
US Supreme Court revives case around ownership of Nazi-looted painting
The case surrounding the ownership of a painting stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman has been ongoing for twenty years. ADVERTISEMENT The quest for the ownership of a French impressionist painting once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman has been revived once again, following a decision from the United States Supreme Court. The contentious piece of art is Camille Pissarro's 1897 oil canvas 'Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain", currently hanging in the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid. The piece depicts a rainswept Paris street and is part of a series of works made by Pissarro towards the end of his career. It is estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars. The Supreme Court said yesterday that the case should be reconsidered under a new California law aimed at strengthening the claims of Holocaust survivors seeking to recover Nazi-looted art. In doing so, the justices overturned previous lower court decisions that sided with the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum. This is a major turnaround in one of the world's oldest cases of legal action against Nazi art theft. The painting was originally owned by German Jewish art collector Julius Cassirer, who bought it from Pissarro in 1900. On the eve of World War II, it was in the hands of his daughter-in-law, Lilly Cassirer Neubauer. She was forced to surrender the artwork to the Nazis, in exchange for visas to escape Germany with her husband. The painting was sold at a Nazi government auction in 1943 and changed hands several times over the years, before the Spanish government bought it from Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in the 1990s. It has since remained on display in Madrid. Heirs of the Cassirer Neubauer family, who now live in California, first sued the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum for ownership in 2005, after discovering that the canvas had not in fact been lost. Lilly Cassirer Neubauer's great-grandson, David Cassirer, said in a statement that he was thankful to the Supreme Court 'for insisting on applying principles of right and wrong.' Throughout this case, the museum has repeatedly said it was not aware of the painting's stolen status when its curators purchased it. A lawyer for the Thyssen-Bornemisza said the institution would continue working toward confirming the piece's ownership 'as it has for the past 20 years.' According to the Jewish Claims Conference, the Nazis seized about 600,000 artworks, cultural and religious items from Jewish people during the Holocaust.
Euronews
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Euronews
US Supreme Court revives case around ownership of Nazi-looted Pissarro painting in Spanish museum
By Sarah Miansoni The case surrounding the ownership of a painting stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman has been ongoing for twenty years. ADVERTISEMENT The quest for the ownership of a French impressionist painting once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman has been revived once again, following a decision from the United States Supreme Court. The contentious piece of art is Camille Pissarro's 1897 oil canvas 'Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain", currently hanging in the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid. The piece depicts a rainswept Paris street and is part of a series of works made by Pissarro towards the end of his career. It is estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars. The Supreme Court said yesterday that the case should be reconsidered under a new California law aimed at strengthening the claims of Holocaust survivors seeking to recover Nazi-looted art. In doing so, the justices overturned previous lower court decisions that sided with the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum. This is a major turnaround in one of the world's oldest cases of legal action against Nazi art theft. The painting was originally owned by German Jewish art collector Julius Cassirer, who bought it from Pissarro in 1900. On the eve of World War II, it was in the hands of his daughter-in-law, Lilly Cassirer Neubauer. She was forced to surrender the artwork to the Nazis, in exchange for visas to escape Germany with her husband. The painting was sold at a Nazi government auction in 1943 and changed hands several times over the years, before the Spanish government bought it from Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in the 1990s. It has since remained on display in Madrid. David Cassirer, great-grandson of Lilly Cassirer Neubauer, in front of the Supreme Court Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Heirs of the Cassirer Neubauer family, who now live in California, first sued the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum for ownership in 2005, after discovering that the canvas had not in fact been lost. Lilly Cassirer Neubauer's great-grandson, David Cassirer, said in a statement that he was thankful to the Supreme Court 'for insisting on applying principles of right and wrong.' Throughout this case, the museum has repeatedly said it was not aware of the painting's stolen status when its curators purchased it. A lawyer for the Thyssen-Bornemisza said the institution would continue working toward confirming the piece's ownership 'as it has for the past 20 years.' According to the Jewish Claims Conference, the Nazis seized about 600,000 artworks, cultural and religious items from Jewish people during the Holocaust.
