Word: carpeaux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres with no visible air of discomfort, a sleek donkey proffered flowers to a foreshortened mermaid floating in a bubble above the Bastille. Over the Opera, a huge bouquet flowered against a turkey-blood sky; at its heart were three dim, blue figures echoing Carpeaux' famed group of statuary, The Dance, while two entwined lovers floated down the Avenue de 1'Opera oblivious of traffic (see opposite page). Marc Chagall, the small, elfin man with the face like a melancholy Harpo Marx, was having his first one-man show in seven years...
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