Word: easel
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...easel at Sotheby's in London, one day in 1938, was a filthy, yellowed, unframed Italian madonna. John Paul Getty gazed at it. "It looks like a Raphael," the richest man in the world recalls muttering to himself. "I liked it." He bid and got it for a paltry...
Beyond the mechanical problems of selection comes the intent of the prize. Should it be to crown a style and seem to urge young artists to march to the easel and start painting like Davis or Giacometti? Or does it encourage new talent to be different-for the sake of being different...
...nude, raped, maimed Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus, painted by Larry Rivers (for Show Magazine) to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th birthday. Willem de Kooning's Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point cocks the abstract expressionist's eye at nature. There is even the genial easel tradition in Raphael Soyer's portrait of his painting twin Moses...
...ungreyed at 54. He is a self-taught artist and a loner among modern artists. He lives like a loner-staying barely long enough in any one London flat to litter it and leave. Last week, having just ended a four-month toot, Bacon was back at his easel in a South Kensington mews flat that has been home for a scant fortnight. At the same time, 65 of his oils went on exhibit in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. It was the largest one-man show in the U.S. for a living British painter within the century...
...mother committed suicide; Charlotte's picture shows her just before she leaped from a window. Her father was taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; her picture of him working under a guard's whip is a frenzied sketch, as if she could not bear to confront her easel. She fled from Germany; the scene of her last night at home is a lonely vigil over suitcases...