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The Post barely brushes this topic, speculating that the investigators may have concluded the tragedy resulted from a decision by the entire crew.
Most notable is the revelation that a financial scandal involving close family friends forced Matisse to quit the experimental phase he was starting and focus on more salable works: "Spurling brushes aside all our preconceptions about the painter to reveal a personality--and a personal history--none of us had guessed at" (Richard Dorment, the New York Review of Books ). Also praised is the insight into the role Matisse's wife, Amélie, played in fostering his talents.
Pollock came at the canvas with a range of tools--sticks, brushes, basters, and paint cans with holes--the effects of which he had mastered.
In the next painting, Pirate (also 1981), de Kooning picks up his brushes again.
Except the lawyers have traded their fine brushes for broad ones--paint rollers, perhaps--and the Microsoft case appears even smaller than it did before.