Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 109
ed of his pictures were sold byauction in Paris for £280, a sum no dealer would nowaccept for a single good example of his work. At last hewas recognised. His Made de Villefranche was purchasedfor the Luxembourg in 1896, and he was made a memberof the Legion of Honour. Two years later he died.… … THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR ALLIES 75 kinds. Grey was the prevailing colour in his pictures,wrought in well-nigh an infinity of subtle variations, andrelieved by many touches of wanner colour. His Le Porttie Bordeaux at the Luxembourg, for example, is silverygrey in its general effect, but the…
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