Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Iowa had come a canvas, property of the Des Moines Association of Fine Arts, executed by Artist Eugene Edward Speicher. It showed, baldly speaking, a lady with no clothes on and was simply called, like many another masterpiece, "Nude." The judges found it worthy of $1,000 donated by Capitalist Potter Palmer...
...hour and a half, for 1,648,750 francs (about $55,000). A Cezanne went for 280,000, a nude by Matisse for 100,000; the highest price of the sale 520,000 francs was paid for a picture by Henry Rousseau, "The Sleeping Bohemian," which the artist sold 15 years ago for 400 francs. Even now some critics laugh at it. "What Idiot," asked L'Oetivre, "Will Pay the Big Price for the 'Sleeping Bohemian'?" To pass sentence on the mental soundness of M. Bigne, the buyer, one must see the picture...
...exhibited last winter in Manhattan. Artist Rousseau painted it when his memory gave him a scene that some sentence or story had buried in his mind a long time before, perhaps in his childhood; for the picture of the night, the desert, the beast and the sleeping woman is achieved in accents as intense and dim as the words of a child in a fever. It may be that the word "Bohemian" had taken on, when he first heard it, some quality not its own, a jangling note that suggested the picture, for why the painted traveler, asleep under...
...week ran -it, but no Morris Gest, or other enterprising producer, no Otto Kahn or other Maecenas, not even Patron Idea-man Edward W. Bok came forward to help Dr. Stokowski. People of the maddeningly practical turn of mind suggested that the ardent artist persuade his audiences to close the"ir eyes...
...Dorothy Gish is on the verge of being sold to a Chinaman for three pounds sterling- dirt cheap at the price, too. Fleeing the yellow peril, Dorothy faints in front of a high class a la carte restaurant, is adopted by a sympathetic, wealthy family, marries a good-looking artist...