Word: fernand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delicious Deception. Journalists had a field day. How delicious is the deception of the rich! What a blow for aesthetic egalitarianism! And what a cast of characters! Front men for the operation were a pair of homosexuals named Fernand Legros and Réal Lessard. Legros, a French-Egyptian given to wearing snug suits lined in red silk, jetted around the world with his counterfeit wares while maintaining a lavish Paris apartment and an all-male harem. Legros's partner, Lessard, was a young Canadian with a handsome, honest face. On the road he was a cool...
Born into a rich and landed Hungarian family, De Hory cruised Europe's capitals as a playboy artist during the '20s and '30s. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris and brushed elbow patches with artists whose works he was to fake in years to come. Life was an amusement that ended abruptly with World War II. Totally apolitical, Elmyr was nevertheless shipped off to a Transylvanian concentration camp. "I was," he says with Magyar flair, "obviously too colorful a person for the safety of the state." He survived the Carpathian winter by painting...
World War II. From Holland came Piet Mondrian, from Germany Hans Hofmann and George Grosz, from France Fernand Leger, Andre Masson, Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst, providing the new generation of U.S. artists with direct links to Cubism ana Surrealism...
Mature Mail. Riklis's own managers have already learned how to live with the boss's engaging eccentricities. Chairman Riklis, whose salary came to $379,000 last year, has developed an avid taste for Postimpressionist art; Rapid's mid-Manhattan offices are filled with Fernand Legers, Francis Bacons, Roy Lichtensteins...
Recognizing that "there are still good artists in Paris, but there are exciting ones in America-what you call new blood," Mourlot has opened a shop in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Heading the U.S. operation is Fernand's son, Jacques Mourlot, 34. The new Atelier Mourlot, set up in a renovated 1830 stucco building, is equipped with 60 of Mourlot's 20-and 30-year-old stones, three small hand proof presses, three large electric flatbed presses and three skilled French printers, each trained from adolescence in the Paris shop...