Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wales Latham, descendant of 300 years of New England Yankees, became a Commander in the Order of the British Empire-for wartime Bundling (chief organizer, president) for Britain. Another new member of the Order: Rabbi Stephen Wise's artist wife, Louise Waterman Wise, who headed the women's division of the refugee-harboring American Jewish Congress...
...answer was at the heart of the Latin Quarter's latest cause celebre, the case of Georges Rouault, artist, v. the heirs of Ambroise Vollard, dealer. The case history went back to about 1914, when Rouault was an out-at-elbows modernist and Vollard was an up-&-coming dealer, one of the few who bought modern paintings. He gave Rouault a studio in his own house and advanced him 50,000 francs (then $10,000)-thereby obtaining all his work in progress and a lien on future paintings...
Last week a French court upheld him. The court ruled: the artist is the sole owner of all his work as long as it is unsigned, and he has the right to change or even destroy it. The Vollard heirs were ordered to return the 807 Rouaults to him in a month, or pay him 100,000 francs (now $840) apiece. The court ordered Rouault to pay the heirs a sum yet to be determined to wipe off Vollard's bill. Rouault expects to "finish up" only about 30 of the paintings. Among other things, Rouault has gone increasingly...
Died. Alfred Stieglitz, 82, world-famed photographer, founder of the "photo-secession" movement that emphasized realism and sought to make photography an art, husband of Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, the obscure Southern art teacher whom he sponsored; in Manhattan. Stieglitz introduced to the U.S. the works of Rodin, Cezanne, Matisse, Rousseau, jolted the orthodox art world by hanging paintings and photographs side by side in his Manhattan gallery...
...turn of the century he bulked big as an illustrator (and as a Hearstling pictorial reporter), sometimes earning a sensational $25,000 a year. Thirty-six years after his death, the Hearstwhile artist is now recognized for his deadeye accuracy of detail as almost a major historian. Last year A Dash for Timber was sold for $23,000. And last week a Manhattan gallery was showing 28 early black-&-white Remingtons (including eight of his 22 famed illustrations for Hiawatha...