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Died. Rene Robert Bouche, 57, brilliant Manhattan portraitist, Vogue illustrator, TIME cover artist (Jean Kerr, Sophia Loren, John F. and Edward Kennedy); of a heart attack; in Ling-field, England. A slight, wiry, cosmopolite (Czech-born, to a French father, Hungarian mother), Bouche studied in Munich and Paris, went through...
The book flirts fashionably with incest and inversion (Cass has a curiously susceptible lady psychiatrist); the style is full of mannerisms and cultural snobberies, e.g., people are not openmouthed but bouche-bée. And how is the reader to care about a heroine who says, "Just give me the...
THE real cover portrait of Jean Kerr was painted, after seven hours of sittings, by Rene Robert Bouche, whose first TIME cover this is. An artist long familiar in the pages of Vogue, Bouche was described by TIME, on the occasion of his last one-man gallery show in Manhattan...
Bouche, whose manner is as continental as his name, was born in 1905 in Prague. He moved from Paris to Manhattan in 1941, enthusiastically describes New York as "like Paris before the war." Usually Bouche begins with a series of sketches, "tight, clear, classic studies of a nose or an...
A knowing sparrow of a man, Bouché often asks the glamorous and important to pose for his thin-stained canvases, gives them a drawing for their pains. Bouché's technical equipment, like that of John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini, is not prodigious, but exactly suits his...