Word: babar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what he would like in a picture. Friends have interpreted it as an allegory of the Spanish civil war: the straw general on horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn-out limbs of the rubber doll, monarchy lurking in the book Babar the King. Mark and Aaron both smile at this. They like the picture for the same reason others like it-because even when he chooses unpretty things to paint, Artist Bohrod's serio-comic detail tips the scale toward optimism...
...bookstore, the happy family was not only visiting but also on sale. The triplets are indeed the children of Jean de Brunhoff, but only in a mental sense. For five years, until his death last October, M. de Brunhoff delighted children and adults with tales of two adventurous elephants, Babar and Celeste. Last week Mrs. Kimball opened a bundle from Paris with the latest Babar book and found that Celeste had become the mother of three little elephant babies (see cut). She decided that this was news for the Herald Tribune; her only disappointment was that the society reporter...
...death in Switzerland last October of a pleasant Parisian gentleman named Jean de Brunhoff ended the adventures of one of the world's most endearing elephants. Jean de Brunhoff was the creator of Babar, the elephant whose life and high times he illustrated in a series of picture books read by children the world over. Babar, his Queen Celeste, his kindly adviser Cornelius, his mischievous little cousin Arthur and his friend the Old Lady, were all invented during bed-time stories told by Artist de Brunhoff to his three little boys. Between 1932 and 1937, five Babar books were...
Last week the Manhattan galleries of Durlacher Bros, displayed 66 of the original Babar water colors in an exhibition arranged with the aid of Jean de Brunhoff's widow and his brother, Michel, the Paris editor of Vogue. Priced from $25 to $100, these bland, lively and unworldly little drawings, colored with surprising delicacy, made the most successful show of its kind Manhattanites have seen in many...
Died, Jean de Brunhoff, 37, French painter, author of "Babar" children's books; of tuberculosis, in Switzerland...