Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picasso himself, who in 1945 became fascinated with the out-of-mode art form, was soon joined by a host of modern masters-Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Joan Miro et al. In the U.S. lithography, which was revived as an art form under the WPA, also began its boom soon after World War II. Today in Manhattan The Contemporaries Graphic Art Center has in constant use most of the 90-odd lithographic stones it rounded up from old commercial houses Which since the turn of the century have shifted to zinc and offset printing...
...lithography boom is proving profitable to artists and art lovers alike. A one-edition gouache or oil by France's most popular younger painter, 28-year-old Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952 et seq.), costs up to $3,500. One print from his 75-edition Still Life with White Fruit Dish costs only $80, but sale of the whole edition would mount up to $6,000. Top Italian Painter Afro, 44, winner of Italy's first prize for painting in this year's Venice Biennale, gets $700 for a work the size of his abstract lithograph...
...sells right off the walls. During its seven-week exhibit, more than 300 lithographs were sold. Most popular: Cranes in the Moonlight by Japan's leading lithographer, Yoshinobu Masuda, 51, and Zebras, by Swiss Painter Hans Erni. What gladdens lithograph fans most, however, is that the current boom is matching quality with quantity. Not since the days when such lithographers as Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and Signac were at work has the outlook been so bright. Says Cincinnati's Print Curator Gustave von Groschwitz: "The current boom will equal and already looks as if it will surpass...
FILTER-TIP BOOM, some 30% of all sales this year, will help push cigarette consumption to alltime record in 1956. After slumping to 368.7 billion smokes in 1954, during cancer scare, says Agriculture Department, consumption climbed back to 382.1 billion last year, will hit estimated 395 billion in 1956, some 900 million better than previous record...
STATION WAGON for Oldsmobile, its first since 1950, will be part of 1957 line. With station-wagon boom currently accounting for 11% total auto output (reasons: expanding suburbs, bigger families), Olds will schedule 10% of total production in station wagons...