Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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History to Order. Nothing could be further removed from Mathieu's announced intentions. Mathieu, who has learned Salvador Dali's stunt of playing the caped and haughty aristocrat, takes the titles for his pictures from early French history. He claims to be reproducing old battles and honoring the...
Ballet of One. "It was our good fortune," the writer recalls, "to witness the most unpredictable of ballets, a dance of dedicated ferocity, the grave elaboration of a magic rite. In the hodgepodge of paint tubes by the hundreds, of brushes as long as halberds, of spilt oil cans, Mathieu...
He also chipped both elbows then, however when he was tossed from the ring onto a non-existent canvas which turned out to be concrete. The injury turned him into a coach.
The picture's shadowy history was pieced together recently by Art Historian Katharine McCook Knox. A Chicago promoter commissioned the canvas from the most fashionable portraitist of the day, George Peter Alexander Healy, just after the 1860 elections. Healy buttonholed the President-elect at Springfield, got him to sit...
Thierry's work was so sure that many a viewer suspected trickery. One afternoon a fur-coated lady exclaimed: "I can't believe that this child has produced all these paintings without someone else's guidance." A messenger was sent to fetch a set of brushes, a...