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...That She-Devil." Neither the birth of an illegitimate son, Maurice,* when Suzanne was 18, nor her subsequent turbulent love affairs checked her career. Under Degas' tutelage, Suzanne improved her drawing and learned the technique of drypoint etching. She did most of her drawing at home, finding her ideal subjects in the figures of maids, charwomen and women friends whom she sketched, usually bathing. Degas, astonished at her natural talent, hung her work in his dining room, once chided her: "That she-devil of a Maria, what talent she has . . . Why do you show me nothing more...
Spectators already familiar with Sargent were apt to turn to the swank, super-Gibsonesque drypoint portraits made by Helleu during the first two decades of the century. He is said to have done only four portraits of men-and the reason seemed obvious. Among his swan-necked beauties were the actress Liane de Pougy, Madame Helleu, Michael Strange, Mme. Louis Jacques Balsan (the former Duchess of Marlborough...
...applause. Saint Francis had the advantage of a score by famed self-exiled German "Kulturbolschewist" Paul Hindemith (TIME, March 14), which proved to be not only top-flight Hindemith but the finest contemporary ballet music Manhattanites had heard since the palmiest days of Igor Stravinsky. To its subtly suggestive, drypoint phrases, Saint Francis (Choreographer Massine), in a medieval setting, pursued his ideal of Poverty (paradoxically embodied by demure, eye-filling Ballerina Theilade), tamed a big bad wolf, ardently embraced his very tangible ideal, and ended by miming a fervent hymn of praise...
Featuring the 1937 book is an etching frontispiece, executed in drypoint by Charles Blessing of Boston. Another highspot in art-work is the Album's departure from the usual reprinting of familiar college scenes. Replacing these is a series of lithographs from unusual pencil sketches of the Houses--the WORK of the Russian artist, Constantin A. Pertzoff...
Some exceptions: Giorgi Manuilov's able Still Life of a guitar, lamp, vase and apples. Two noteworthy American Indian mural paintings designed inside semicircle with legs at one end, symbolized heads at the other. Three drypoint etchings by John Taylor Arms, done with the smallest etching needle made...