By Hilton Kramer 12/03/01 12:00am

At the Jewish Museum, Only Pissarro Is Great

It has long been observed that the Jews, though an ancient and

intellectually gifted people, were late in coming to the art of painting. Both

their own religious doctrines-especially the Second Commandment prohibiting the

making of graven images-and the strict segregation traditionally enforced upon

Jews in Christian societies effectively precluded their participation in the

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By Hilton Kramer 2/19/01 12:00am

Gauguin, Meyer de Haan Are Reunited in Nirvana

Of the many modern artists who have sought refuge from the

encroachments and commercialism of modern civilization in primitive,

out-of-the-way places of unspoiled natural beauty, the French painter Paul

Gauguin (1848-1903) is probably the most legendary. The story of his

life-quitting a profitable job on the Paris stock exchange and then abandoning

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