Corot

1 According to her lawsuit, Doyle lined up a co-worker at a private jet company, James Carl Haggerty, to take the Corot canvas to a Manhattan hotel for a potential buyer to examine on July 28.

2 But even so, you can hear the pure realism in narrative dialogue as easily as you can drive a horse and cart out of a Corot painting.

3 Paging through it you sense that Corot, in his mature years, saw landscape drawing as a kind of set design.

4 An assiduously shaded profile of a seated monk shows that Corot could do academic figure drawing as well as anyone, when he chose to.

5 As the Corot scholar Amy Kurlander writes in the show’s online catalog, “In the later years Corot’s landscape was not just a gestural performance by the artist, but a particular mode of perception.”

6 That award marked a change in the reception of Corot’s work; in the 1830s and early ’40s he had struggled to get paintings into the salons.

7 Newly on display as well are lots of works from the old collection, like paintings by Corot, Degas and Rothko, that there was never room to show before.

8 Works in the collection, which include landscapes by Corot, Eugène Boudin and Childe Hassam, have estimates of up to $300,000 each.

9 Müller and Schubert’s mill — like Corot’s — is machinery, both material and ideological, that will be cast out by the forward march of industrialization.

10 It is hard to look away, so perfectly does Corot’s treatment of these two features — arm and face — correspond to the tension between our sensuous, tingling surfaces and our secret, complicating interiority.

11 These costumes gave Corot an opportunity to show off his extraordinary feeling for color, and also his touch.

12 Corot was not the sort to devote his energies to painting trumpeting masterpieces.

13 He did not, for instance, simply collect the usual Corot landscapes that Americans adore, those sun-dappled reveries of high skies and silvery tree trunks picked out against soft receding leaves.

14 Corot: Women is on view at the National Gallery of Art through Dec. 31.

15 The estate of British painter Lucian Freud has bequeathed works by Corot and Degas to the nation, under the government's acceptance in lieu scheme.

16 The agreement let the foundation sell the Corot and a few others, museum spokeswoman Sarah Stifler said.

17 These later works, with their soft gradations of charcoal and conté crayon, remind us why the Impressionists so admired Corot.

18 But to Corot’s credit, these meanings collapse under the weight of the scene’s gorgeously particular truth.

19 In France, real modernity — considered in the exhibition book to have been championed by the supporters of the antiquity fad — would beckon a decade later in the landscapes of a genius named Corot.

20 A portrait of art critic and poet John Ruskin has been allocated to the Ashmolean in Oxford, while the estate of British painter Lucian Freud bequeathed works by Corot and Degas.

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