Word: drypoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-Portrait: When I Was Sick, Louis Corinth's etching with drypoint, magically creates--through brisk, vibrant strokes--the chilling atmosphere of the sick room. Kokotte by Otto Dix, is characterized by evanescent technique and incisive vision, not unlike Corinth's basically realistic style...
...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...