Word: constantin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every year one talented man, usually young, writes a novel which France's Goncourt Academy immortalizes. This, Author Constantin-Weyer's novel, is the 25th to win the prize. A Man Scans His Past tells a story as much of prairies and snows as of death and love in Canada. Poetic descriptions of nature are lavishly strewn over a French horse-trader's trek from the U. S. to Canada where he sells his herd; then his mush onward by sled and dog, to the frozen Northwest for furs. On the way back death comes...
Prominent among the painters whose work is being shown are Giorgio de Chirico, Raoul Dufy, Marcel Gromaire, Moise Kisling, Marie Laurencin, Joan Miro, Amadeo Modigliani, and Maurice Vlaminck. "Golden Bird" by Constantin Brancusi occupies a conspicuous place among the sculpture being exhibited, included in which are also pieces by Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol...
...pieces of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, one of which is a famous "Flight of the Bird," should be among the most interesting features of the exhibit. In the program note for the show there is the following comment on this eminent sculptor: "An artist of enormous technical knowledge he has experimented, refined, synthesized, and perfected until his forms are the inevitable essentials of his model, expressed in media whose possibilities he has so completely explored." "Standing Nude" by Aristide Maillol is another piece of sculpture that will appear in the exhibition...
Rumanian Sculptor Constantin Brancusi had to pay $4,000 to bring his Bird in Flight into the U. S. (TIME, March 7, 1927). Works of art are duty free. But Sculptor Brancusi's bird had neither head, feet nor feathers. It was four and a half feet of bronze which swooped up from its base like a slender jet of flame. Customs Inspector Kracke said it was not art; merely "a manufacture of metal . . . held dutiable at 40% ad valorem." The press bantered, jibed. Indignant modernists wrote abstruse, defensive paragraphs. Sculptor Brancusi complained to the Customs Court...
...French, acquired from her mother, she was received in the almost impenetrable salons of the Faubourg St. Germain in Paris. Her Nevada brand of horsemanship, exhibited in the Bois du Boulogne, was the despair of French equestriennes. Meissonier painted her portrait. Ludovic Halevy portrayed her in L'Abbe Constantin, the novel which won him a seat among the "40 Immortals" of the French Academy. While Mr. Mackay remained in the U. S., she crossed the Channel to London, repeated her triumphs. Her mansion on Carlton House Terrace was decorated with Gobelin tapestries, other valuable objets d'art. Edward...