Word: annigoni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sketch for TIME by the Italian artist Pietro Annigoni...
WHEN Italian Portraitist Pietro Annigoni met Germany's new Chancellor, Dr. Erhard said: "I have seen some of your paintings of the British royal family. And I remember the one you did of President Kennedy. Tell me, how many sittings did they give...
...Annigoni had four one-hour sittings with Erhard for this week's cover, painting for ten minutes at a stretch, then letting Erhard rest for five. Erhard asked if he might read and smoke during the sittings, and was told please, no. But he grunted a jovial approval of the final portrait...
...sketch for the cover was done from life in the Vatican by Italian Artist Pietro Annigoni (who painted last January's Man of the Year cover of John F. Kennedy). The painter's reaction to the Pope: "So nice, so simple, so direct, so close to you . . . and yet so terribly distant. Even the simplest conversation with him ended with a few words putting you in front of Eternity...
...White House the diplomatic silence was broken by Caroline Kennedy, asking her father: "Daddy, where did you get those spooky eyes?" Artist Annigoni, in Florence, has been cheerily reading the critical letters in TIME and stands his ground: "I stayed with him many hours, watching while he talked, while he put questions. He then has a very special transformation in his face. I've seen the man at work and that's what I wanted to produce in a short time. I'm capable of criticizing myself. But from the point of view of interpretation," and here...