Word: besnard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France. A rare still life by Forain (painted in 1872) already mellowed by time; a strongly accented brown nude by Derain; Edward Vuillard's comfortable "Woman in Front of a Fireplace"; a curiously enervated drawing by Matisse; work by Menard, Besnard Danchez, Le Sidaner, Blanche; a full length painting by witty Guy Pene Du Bois of a nude woman seen from behind while she peeps through a slit in her curtain window at something in the next room...
Balloting resulted in the election of : Émile Picard, member of the Academy of Science and professor of mathematics at the Sorbonne; Albert Besnard, Director of the Académie des Beaux Arts, best known artist in France; Georges Lecomte, journalist, author, playwright, historian, critic - literary handy man. The latter's political biography of ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau is said to be the best of its kind...
...above elections, there are 37 members, among the most important of whom are: Litterateurs: Joseph Bédier, Paul Bourget, Marcel Prevost, Henri de Regnier; Statesmen: Louis Barthou, Georges Clemenceau, Raymond Poincaré, Jules Cambon; Soldiers: Les Maréchals Ferdinand Foch, Joseph Joffre, Louis Lyautey; Artists: Albert Besnard (the only one) ; Journalist: Georges Lecomte; Educator: Emile Picard...
Other appointments made: M. de Fleuriau, Minister to Peking, to be Ambassador to Great Britain in place of Comte de Saint Aulaire; Senator Réné Besnard to be Ambassador to Italy, displacing M. Barriére, who for 27 years has represented France at Rome; M. Peretti della Rocca, Director of Political and Commercial Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Ambassador to Spain in room of M. de Fontenay; Comte Charles de Chambrun, Director of Press Service at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Minister at Athens; Deputy Jean Hennessy, ardent supporter of the League of Nations...
...show to include the better known of the modern artists? Gauguin, Bellows, etc. And this year he made a special trip to Europe to find the best the continent could offer to be shown alongside the best American work. The result was the return with him of Paul Albert Besnard, the foremost French painter (TIME, April...