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...Andre Durenceau and Mrs. Kay Kaplan are partners in painting. He does the work she gets for him. Last week his latest picture and her latest commission arrived in Manhattan in the form of a 2 ft. by 3 ft. easel painting of the Crucifixion (see cut). The work was a present from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to his beauteous wife Gwladys...
Lately Artist Durenceau completed for Mrs. Whitney's East River apartment dining room a series of murals containing formalized heads & torsos of huge white Negroes against a pale green background. They cost $5,000. Mrs. Whitney was so well pleased with them that her husband also ordered the Durenceau Crucifixion with which to decorate their home. Its price was likely to approximate that for the mural price. Done in greys, greens and reds, the work took Artist Durenceau three months to finish. Those who viewed it excitedly last week could not make up their minds whether Sonny Whitney...
...Andre Durenceau, 28, is an unworldly French-born U. S. citizen who studied at the Beaux Arts in Paris, once designed textiles for the United Piece Dye Works in Manhattan. There he met Mrs. Kaplan, also a designer. In Hollywood, he was given a job as color adviser to Technicolor Inc. in which Sonny and his cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney later became heavy stockholders (TIME, June 5). Mrs. Kaplan also went to Hollywood, was persuaded by Durenceau she would be a more successful manager than artist. Her first job as manager was to get commissions to decorate Hollywood homes...
AFRICAN DRUMS-Fred Puleston; illustrated by André Durenceau-Farrar & Rinehart...
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