Word: assia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoedler's nudes with something contemporary and three-dimensional could see distinction in both respects at the Buchholz Gallery. The exhibition was of bronzes by Charles Despiau, 65, a quiet, interminable workman who has gradually taken rank as one of the two or three finest French sculptors. His Assia (see cut), a 35-inch bronze done in 1938, was the chief work shown. Not ten classic "standing nudes" so esthetically satisfactory have been fashioned since the time of Rodin...
...semi-starvation and odd jobs. Annette. who has also had her troubles in Rumania, comes back to Paris and takes a job as secretary to a notorious gutter-journalist; rumor quickly calls her his mistress. Marc avoids her, falls on worse & worse days, finally collapses into dangerous illness. Assia. a Russian girl who lives in the next room, nurses him, sends for Annette, and mother and son are reconciled. When Marc is convalescent he and Assia fall in love. Assia, who has been through a scarring mill, tells Annette her life story, offers to leave Marc. But wise Annette tells...