Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason the art "season"' begins in Manhattan at the end of September is that by that time prospective buyers are back in town. Another good reason is that most artists do their biggest wad of work in the summer, have it ready for exhibition in the autumn. By last week the first fruits of the old season were already tumbling into...
Vital. "All fine works of art are vital, not with the vitality of topical social problems but with the vitality which seems to make a picture alive. . . ." Thus some-what unnecessarily announcing himself as a non-social painter, Victor de Pauw displayed 30 paintings at the Charles Morgan Gallery. Most were good & alive, though many were over facile. A great source of vitality to Artist de Pauw: circuses, and especially clowns. Unlike his great predecessor in this field, Toulouse-Lautrec (see below), Artist de Pauw composes better than he draws...
Three years ago Gerstle Mack's Paul Cezanne was published and accepted almost at once as a definitive biography. Painstaking and fully documented, it presented Cezanne as a great intuitive inventor in the art of painting; and its sympathetic account of the artist's crotchety life cleared the air of much second-rate chatter. Biographer Mack's new subject is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa,* who died of drink and exhaustion in 1901, aged 36, the greatest French master of line between Daumier and Picasso...
...interested mainly in falcons and thoroughbred horses, promptly lost interest in Henri. Among the best things in Gerstle Mack's book are excerpts from young Lautrec's whimsical convalescent letters, a quaint "Zig Zag Journal'1 he kept at 16, his first sassy comments on art exhibitions in Paris. But as Lautrec became mature and bitterly familiar with his deformity, the pleasures of cafe conversation took the place of writing. This made things difficult for his biographer...
Engaged. Lieut. Bruno Mussolini, 21. Italian Royal Air Force pilot, second son of Il Duce; and Gina Ruberti, 20-year-old daughter of the head of the Ministry of Education's Contemporary Art Bureau; in Rome...