Word: avignon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already using girls from a Bucharest bordello as mod els. This in itself was nothing new: Toulouse-Lautrec had endlessly sketched prostitutes, and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d' Avignon represents a famous brothel. But for Pascin, prostitutes be came both his main subject and a way of life, and in many ways he found his brush with life more important than his brush with the canvas...
...cubist paintings, making it the first time-and probably the last-that the complete series of great cubist portraits could be seen in sequence. From the U.S. came 46 key paintings from private collections and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art's pivotal 1907 Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that heralded the beginning of cubism. Only outstanding omission: the Modern's 1937 Guernica, which the museum considered "too fragile to travel...
Meanwhile, back in Avignon, it was life as usual at the Mathieu house...
Sunny Side. Like Piaf, Mireille comes from humble origins. Daughter of an Avignon stonecutter, she is the eldest of 13 children. When her big break came last year, she was employed as a factory worker operating an envelope-folding machine for $15 a week...
...full force of the midsummer madness struck Western Europe last week. Bulletins on French radio had the urgency of war communiques: "The traffic jam is now approaching Lyon . . . It is now impossible to pass through Avignon . . . Accidents have blocked all roads into Aix." In Italy, three-quarters of the population of Milan fled the city. Rome, Florence, Naples and Genoa were dead, and Capri, Elba, Rimini and Viareggio as jammed as Coney Island on the 4th of July. Thousands of vacationers had to stand twelve hours in railroad coaches to reach the sea. In Spain, the government had moved from...