A Perfect Snapshot of a Moment in Time

Maurice Brianchon. Bal Masque. 1948. Oil on panel. 33 x 55 cm. Courtesy of David Hirsh.
Walking through the exhibition “Painters’ Lives: Marguerite Louppe and Maurice Brianchon,” curated by William Corwin and David Hirsh, we are reminded how artists evolve incrementally, by fits and false-starts, and that over time these form a composite that comes to epitomize the artist’s work. Though this show…