Saturday

@ MMFA:

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1664), "Landscape with man pursued by a snake", about 1637-1639, oil on canvas:


Friday

Quick visit to Galerie Yves Laroche:

Mainly 'Juxtapose-y' like crap, real bric-a-brac, but just behind the glass door to the private showroom, on the floor leaning against the wall, in the half-dark like a hustler, a Francis Bacon lithograph of two fleshy figures writhing, # 45 / 60. 

Next door at Lacerte, a stunning Edmund Alleyn gouache from 1962, "Untitled",($9 800).  Matted & framed beautifully.  Clearly from his "Indian Summer" days.  A knock-out of a piece.

Tuesday

Milton Avery "Green Sea", 1954, oil on canvas, 42 x 60 inches:




Mardsen Hartley, Mount Katahdin, Maine,1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 1/8 inches:


Mardsen Hartley, details (sky & trees)


Mardsen Harley, Evening Storm, Schoodic, Maine, 1942, oil on composition board, 30 x 40 inches


Monday

"Every true artist creates new values, new beauty...When you notice anarchy, recklessness, or licentiousness in works of contemporary art, when you notice crass coarseness and brutality, then occupy yourself long and painstakingly precisely with these works, and you will suddenly recognize how the seeming recklessness transforms itself into freedom, the coarseness into high refinements.  Harmless pictures are seldom worth anything.

                                                                                                                               -Emile Nolde

Friday

Chaim Soutine, "Windy Day, Auxerre", oil on canvas, 1939, 19 1/4" x 25 5/8".


Chaim Soutine, "View of Céret",oil on canvas, 1922, 29 1/8" x 29 1/2"


Wednesday

@ Galerie d'Arts Contemporains:

William Ronald, "Sans Titre / Untitled", Acrylic on panel, 1972 , $ 32 000 approx.
@ Galerie Claude Lafitte:

Joan Mitchell, "Sunflowers III, Etching & Aquatint, H.C., (30/75), 1982, 26 1/2" x 17", $15 000



Rita Letendre, "Jours d' été", oil on canvas, 1960, 16" x 20".

Marcel Feron, "Untitled ", huile sur panneau, 1960, 10" x 8".


Jean McEwen, "Unfunished Landscape, #26," huile sur toile, 1989, 60" x 60".


 David Milne, "Boiling a pot of coffee in woods, in winter", watercolour, 1939, 14" x 21".


Georges Rouault, "Couple", gouache, 1945, 11" x 9.2".