Word: boldini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impressed with the "Back to Bouguereau" movement. Last week with a better artist and in a better cause (a loan exhibition at the Widenstein Galleries for New York's Child Welfare Committee), Maud Dale revived the work of one of M. Bouguereau's contemporaries, the late Giovanni Boldini. Giovanni Boldini ("Zanin" to intimates) was a society portraitist as artificial as any who ever stretched a lady's fingers to tickle her vanity. Modernists excuse Zanin Boldini for a virtue denied most Academicians, an exuberance, vivacity and frank sensuousness that won him the title of "Master of Swish...