With a Paul Gaugin front and center, Francis Bacon to the right and Paul Cézanne to the left, the first room in the new de Young Museum show starts off with a bang.
“The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism,” on view through Dec. 30, includes more than 60 big-name paintings, sculptures and drawings.
The works, against hunter green walls, give the exhibition an intimate feel, as if the visitor has been allowed inside an exclusive British gentlemen’s club.
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With the de Young Museum’s post-impressionist exhibit in its final weekend and tickets sold out until it closes, fine-arts buffs are acting like die-hard Lady Gaga fans. Scalpers are selling tickets for up to four times the normal price, and people are turning to the Internet in a desperate attempt to buy them. A couple from Arcata offered $50 a ticket, saying, “Please! First Date Since Baby!!”
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