Word: bathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This particular version of Mont Saint-Victoire just approaches being over-labored, a flaw to which Cezanne was susceptible. Nevertheless, he stopped in the nick of time. A living spontaneity illuminates this painting. For that matter, two small canvases, a portrait of the artist's son, and a bather, are fresher still and the more marvelous...
...struck with the asymmetry between Brigitte Bardot's stance (May 12) and that of Sculptor Emilio Greco's Grand Bather (same issue). Of the two gals in bikinis, I'll take the bronze...
Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture enthusiast. Last week a young Soviet art student named Ilya Glazunov finally dared break the rule, showed a nude girl (modeled by his wife) lolling in bed while her lover gazes out of the window over the city of Leningrad. The result sent the whole Soviet art world into a tizzy and crowds swarming to the Moscow gallery to see his work. At the gallery Glazunov...
...your Feb. 15 discussion of the Tate Gallery's affairs, when you refer to the charge that "the Tate trustees had sold good paintings, bought inferior works at inflated prices," you do not specify what they sold, what bought. Actually what was lately sold was a nude bather by Renoir, whose popularity in contemporary America you document in your color spread in the same issue. They sold it for $16,800 . . . and their principal purchase from this money was Picasso's cubist Seated Nude Woman...
...trunks. The suit, a male model that had sleeves and knee-length legs in the style of the day, was not designed to help anyone set aquatic records: it weighed 2 Ibs. dry and 8 Ibs. wet. But because it kept its shape better than others and gave the bather more freedom, people swarmed to buy it. Jantzen soon abandoned its sweaters, socks, gloves and other woolens, concentrated on bathing suits. It got its biggest boost from its trademark, a diving girl clad in what was quite a daring outfit for those days: red bathing suit, red stockings...