Example sentences for: bougival

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  • The most overwhelming rooms are those exhibiting works by 19th-century French artists, containing dozens of Monets, Millet’s The Sower, Renoir’s Dance at Bougival, and works by Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh.

  • Only Linda Nochlin (whose contribution to the catalog of the Chicago show is an overview of Impressionist portraiture with almost nothing on Renoir) used the Art in America occasion to say something serious and illuminating about Renoir's art, noting that Renoir's men--in such idylls as Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) and Dance at Bougival (1883) (both great paintings, which blur the distinction between portrait and genre painting, are in the Chicago show)--offer a masculine ideal counter to the male predators and businessmen of Degas and Manet: "Tough and tender at once," these men "are luscious, peachy-skinned and downy-haired, with heavy-lidded eyes and yearning red mouths."


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