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...Matisse group, called in derision Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts), included André Derain, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Georges Rouault, Maurice de Vlaminck, Othon Friesz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Matisse Mural | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...lonely flat in Cleveland, Ohio. So it seemed to Nikolai Semenoff. Born in Russia some 50 years ago. he had entered the Imperial Ballet School at 8. In the Imperial Ballet, and in the triumphally trouping Sergei Diaghilev Ballet Russe-with its décors by Bakst, Picasso, Derain; its music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky; its surging choreography-Dancer Semenoff had taken part, close friend and assistant of Director Michel Fokine. When the Revolution changed things, Semenoff escaped through Poland, settled like many other emigrés in Paris. He went to the U. S. as ballet master with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For the Ballet | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

Among the instruments, nuts and nudes on view last week were portraits of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Painters Andre Derain, Joseph Stella. Pablo Picasso, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, Negrophile Nancy Cunard, Torch-Singer Yvonne George, Cinemactress Lois Moran (when she was a child ballerina in the Paris opera). Also exhibited were views of assorted sections of his favorite model, Miss Lee Miller, known as "Lee-Girl" to her intimates, widely celebrated as the possessor of the most beautiful navel in Paris. She too is a photographer, has taken many pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rayograms | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...years ago Dancer Nijinsky, a sloe-eyed young man with supple joints and tremendous thighs, headed the Serge Diaghilev Russian Ballet in its triumphal tour of Paris, London, Berlin, New York. It was the first time that theatregoers had seen a stage decorated by artists of the first rank: Derain. Picasso, Leon Bakst. Ladies in panniered hobble-skirts went into ecstasies over Nijinsky's performance of the Firebird, the Blue Bird, the Slave in Scheherazade, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. It was Vaslav Nijinsky who staged and introduced to the world Stravinsky's great Sacre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Black Period | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...incomprehensible moments; George Braque and Andre Lurcat contribute to the confusion of one who would like very much to understand. On the other hand, Jules Pascin, whose career among the sordid elements of Paris closed but recently has several strange yet interesting pieces on display. Four heads by Andre Derain complete the French side of the exhibition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 5/7/1931 | See Source »

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