The Huffington Post -
4 Nov 2014 22:20

The Musee du Luxembourg has devoted a show to Paul Durand-Ruel ("Paul Durand-Ruel, The Gamble of the Impresssionists"), the Impressionist impresario who also confirmed to Flaubert's dictum about being "regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work." In this case the work was selling and promoting the likes of Monet, Manet, Renoir, Sisley, Cassatt, Morisot, Delacroix, Millet, Courbet, Degas, Cezanne. Ruel conformed to the bourgeois part by...
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