A Pulitzer prize for Harvard museum: $45m and 31 major works of art Oct 18, 2008
The donation, which comes after three years of discussions, constitutes a major addition to Harvard's art collection, including several works of historical importance by Edouard Vuillard, Andre Derain, Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso, and Richard Serra. One piece is already on display in Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Mu seum: Serra's 1969 sculpture "Untitled (Corner Prop Piece).". (Boston Globe)
Profile: Margaret Olley Oct 3, 2008
In 2005 she donated a colour drawing by Edouard Vuillard which she had expressly purchased for the gallery. Yet Olley comes from a humble background, being raised near Lismore during the Depression. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Ruth Cobb, at 93; paintings evoked a dreamlike state Feb 3, 2008
Art historian Francine Koslow Miller of Andover said in an essay to accompany the Brandeis exhibit that Ms. Cobb's art could aptly be described as intimiste, the French word often associated with the mood of late 19th-century paintings by two of Ms. Cobb's favorite artists, Edouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard. The term, which evokes a middle-class life characterized by intimate, cozy domesticity, also aptly describes Ms. Cobb's delicate and subtle interiors, Miller wrote. (Boston Globe)
Vienna Hits Jackpot With Gift of Monets, Picassos, Renoirs for Albertina Sep 15, 2007
A quiet Edouard Vuillard painting predominantly in shades of gray and white, ``The Blue Room'' (1916/1917), shows a woman dressed in a kimono, appearing to listen to a conversation behind the door. Vibrant Fauvists. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Impressionist and Modern art sales: A total disconnect between price and aesthetics May 12, 2007
On Tuesday, shoved in between a pair of indifferent Paris views by Edouard Vuillard and a Pissarro landscape of 1894 which respectively sold for $1. 27 million and $1. (International Herald Tribune)
