Word: bonnards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even if they cannot see Picasso now, the G.I.s in Paris can and do buy prints of his pictures. A Quai Saint Michel shopkeeper said that he sold American soldiers from one to six Picasso prints a day. (Next in order of popularity: Matisse, Gauguin, Bonnard, Goya, Toulouse-Lautrec.) "I am surprised," he said. "They know a lot about painting, just as much as the Germans, if not more." The prints and etchings range from 300 ($6) to 5,000 francs ($100), and the average G.I. collector spends...
...Junkers bomber piloted by two Luftwaffe officers in mufti. From the plane onto neutral Spanish soil stepped French ex-Premier Pierre Laval in black felt hat and his invariable white tie. He was nervously puffing a cigaret. Behind him came his wife and two Vichy Ministers, Abel Bonnard (Education) and Maurice Gabolde (Justice). Laval's heavy baggage included expensive jewelry, a swatch of French banknotes, bundles of political documents...
...Most notorious artistic collaboration was Vichy Minister of Education Abel Bonnard's gift to Hermann Göring of the Van Eycks' famed Ghent altarpiece, Adoration of the Lamb...
...France's Immortals, the black-robed Académie Française, voted to ostracize two famed colleagues: Abel Bonnard, writer who had served as Vichy Minister of Education; Abel Hermant, octogenarian novelist who wrote for Paris's pro-Nazi Les Nouveaux Temps...
...Pierre Bonnard, at the great age of 77, was still at work, living almost incommunicado in the country near Cannes to which he retired at the beginning of the occupation...