And it may be that Lautrec is a very different artist than some people anticipated. People came knowing his posters of the Moulin Rouge, but they then discovered that he's a very accomplished painter with a depth of humanity that wasn't known to most people.

People often think that every artist in that realm had the same qualities. If I want emotional intensity, I'll listen to Little Willie John, but if I want some pyrotechnics, I'll go to Jackie Wilson. It's not all the same emotional level, that stuff, which people make the mistake of thinking it is.

His greatest asset is a rare and deep understanding of the interrelatedness of those disciplines.

For a long time we've had a very important collection of Monet works from every decade of his career from the 1860s to the 1920s, but what we were missing was an exceptionally fine example of his latest decade in extraordinary condition and quality. This painting gives us that.

For a long time we've had a very important collection of Monet works from every decade of his career from the 1860s to the 1920s, but what we were missing was an exceptionally fine example of his latest decade in extraordinary condition and quality, ... This painting gives us that.

In the eyes of the public, ... the museum is a greedy hoarder of ill-gotten goods, in opposition to the legitimate claims of the powerless.