Word: dora
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HENRI ROUSSEAU by Dora Vallier. 327 pages. Abrams. $25. In contrast to the splendid presence of the Goya volume (see above), these two large and well-made books might seem modestly conceived. But they have the artistic balance the Goya lacks. The Lautrec is the more profusely illustrated of the two, and can in fact claim to be the largest collection of the artist's work ever reproduced between two covers...
...strength of the Rousseau volume is the other way around: the pictures are good but are dominated by Dora Vallier's text, which is a critical biography of satisfying dexterity and power. In the 50 years since his death, the life story of this Paris toll collector who quit his work to become a painter at the age of 40 has become fogged with hearsay and growing legend. Author Vallier penetrates to the basic facts of his life and establishes a firm chronology of his work. She is thus able to be explicit and detailed about the development, both...
Picasso was a collector of people as well as things. He constantly visited Françoise predecessor, Dora Maar, who responded by conventionally snubbing Françe when they met. It did not bother him a bit that his first wife, Olga, trailed Françe around the streets. He even kept an entire apartment in Paris, where he had lived with Olga, intact. His suits were still there, moth-eaten to the seams; paintings were slathered with inches of dust. But Pi casso regarded it as a kind of album of his first marriage. Taken to see it, Fran...
...summer expositions in the little pottery town of Vallauris, France, near where he lives, include his many variations of toros, a spring bouquet sketched for U.C.L.A., and some of his wife Jacqueline. At Hahn, 960 Madison Ave. at 75th, are 15 paintings of another woman in his life, Dora Maar. The portraits run through Nov. 14, the posters through...
...Princess Margaret (Nov. 7, 1955). The room is the Kochs' bedroom at their country home on Long Island; the models were an art gallery director who is a friend of the Kochs', and a maid in their employ. Painter Koch (pronounced coke), whose wife is Dora Zaslavsky, a teacher of concert pianists, is perhaps best known for his portraiture, but he has dealt sensitively and often with what he calls "the man-woman theme...