in 1887, he sold this painting to the art dealer theo van gogh, vincent's brother.wo artists were friends-- lautrec sketched vincent's portrait-- and van gogh shared lautrec's interest in subjects drawn from montmartre's public life. but lautrec's great early influence was the work of edgar degas. there's a wonderful anecdote about how, after dinner one evening, he took some friends for what he called a dessert and took them to a friend's apartment where he showed them a painting by degas. what degas stood for was a kind of sophisticated naturalism in painting. degas, in the 1870s, had used cut-off figures, steep angled perspectives, and other devices to give a dramatic sense of immediacy in a way of representing the modern world. lautrec borrowed those kinds of devices for his work. (narrator) the lessons degas offered in a work like in a café-- off-center compositions and cropped figures observed in the real world-- would emerge in lautrec's art. but he reached beyond the frontiers of naturalism and moved into more expressive territory. as he grew into his own sty

. >> 72 years is twice as long as van gogh lived. and here we go. they own it for 72 years.s just a piece of canvas being traded around because money is losing its value. >> your paint is the dollar is worth less. >> that's right. when i taught at harvard business school we used to give the kids a question at the end of the year on van gogh which was sold by 55 million. 17% per year. one of the students wrote to me that van gogh's sun flowers was sold earlier that year for $39 million. she worked out there were 18 sunflowers $2, million per flower. and mrs. peson, 1.1 million per flower. she said as well as she did she could have done 86% better had she had abscess to a can of yellow paint. >> i should point out whoever the source is for the article said it was supposed to remain a secret because he did not want to appear he was snubbing his nose or celebrating to the deposit because there is still a criminal investigation ongoing separate from the civil case that was just settled. $600 million. $615 million. he's spent a little bit this month. >> enemas 20? >> i think he's

century, such as the mourners, cultures from the court of bergandy to the 19th century, including van gogh, and beyond master pieces. and she served as the assistant curator for the blockbuster, girl with the pearl earrings, including impressionists on the water and matice from sf mona to be honored later this year. we invited melissa to speak because he told me that his cloud series was inspired by growing up looking at dramatic skies in dutch landscape painting. welcome. >> thank you to everyone who came out this evening to the main branch of the public library, i felt like it was encased in a cloud with all of the fog and the rain and everything and so i have literally taken on this assignment with a great personal interest and i am seeing clouds everywhere. and when they first called one morning, and introduced herself and told me a little bit about this panel and this project i thought great, i know about clouds i see them every day and i work at the legend of honor, exposed to the sea with the massive mountains and clouds and i thought a piece of cake and i will just talk about cloud

hopefully a nice wielding freak does a van gogh on one of his ears. >> admission to the metropolitanof art. free. what they suggest? $25. but do people really know this is voluntary? i didn't even know we had a museum. turns out we have a bunch of them. let's see if anybody does the same. what are you paying on them? translation you will not pay anything. how much do you plan on paying? >> i don't know. what is the suggested price? >> here is my suggestion, times are tough, how about nothing? >> are they on the up and up? >> there is no scam. >> i would appreciate it if you watch your language. >> what are you looking forward to if you are going in there? >> you will see. >> juicey. >> that is a line of clothing popular among girls. they have colorful sweat suits, no? >> what, i'm sorry? >> do you want to take a picture with me i am a celeb bra you tee. >> i am not interested. >> apparently a cnn fan. don't mind if i don't. how much did you pay to get in? >> 100,000 dollars for -- >> $100,000 talk about getting getting -- you realize the admission -- >> $100. >> oh $100. you know it

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. >> from van gogh to monet he's inspired by the masters, but a true inspiration 80 years his senior.l. >> if you could meet any artist in the world who would you want to meet? >> raelis. >> raelis is known around the world for his beautiful depictions of nature, 91 years young he paints from his home in martha's vinyard. >> you have a ton of brushes. >> ray and josh met this week for the first time at ray's studio. >> i think it's remarkable what he's done with oil painting at 10 years old. >> reporter: two painters, decades apart, brought to the by their love of the art. >> when you squint your eyes at it, it's sort of a light blue, right? >> i was lucky enough to get a short lesson from josh and i'll tell you oil painting is very unforgiving, it's tough. >> it is and josh chase is here. we are so impressed. why did you decide to start painting and to figure out you're pretty good at it? >> yes, i decided painting because i like a lot of different arts and crafts and i thought painting would be fun and i found oil paints and started doing them and i really like them. >> we have a bu