Word: fifi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the entire Impressionist circle. Next step was to give up his practice and open in the Rue Laffitte a tiny art shop that has become a legendary shrine for art students. Dealer Vollard could not compete in the open market with Dealer Durand-Ruel, but in those days "Fifi'' Vollard, as the Impressionists called him, was more fun. He never tried to tell them what to paint or how to paint, gratefully accepted any canvas they would let him have. A great deal of his stock he got for nothing, and when bills were due and customers...
...Fifi Vollard would not then, as he does not now, raise a finger to attract a customer or sell a canvas but occasionally he moved quickly. As soon as Cézanne died Fifi hopped a train for Aix, bought the entire contents of Cézanne's studio, loaded it on a handcart and pushed off for the station. The last canvas came hustling through an open window from the hands of the bereaved family just in time for him to make his train. The War closed the doors of the Rue Laffitte shop. The Impressionists grew...
...Fifi Vollard lives today with his cat (see cut) in a huge house on the RuedeMartig-nac whose first floor shutters are never opened. Artist Rouault has a locked studio on the top floor from which Fifi for all his blustering is rigorously excluded. They lunch and quarrel together nearly every day, but not even Fifi Vollard knows where Georges Rouault lives. He receives all his mail and makes all his appointments at No. 14 Rue de La Rochefoucauld which is the Gustave-Moreau Museum of which he is curator. Neither his stately wife, Marthe Le Sidaner who paints very...
...even Georges Rouault knows the 'name of Fifi Vollard's cat, a testy 12-year-old alley torn whose great ambition is to get into the room where the Cézannes are kept. Frustrated in this he generally dashes for the dining room and claws angry gashes in the leather seats of the ponderous Empire furniture. Fifi Vollard does not mind for he has two dining rooms, one to exhibit his furniture and another smaller closet off the kitchen where he is apt to retire and munch raw peaches while would-be purchasers are left alone...
Died. Marjorie Easton Woodhouse Procter Leidy, 30, second wife of Philadelphia Socialite Carter Randolph Leidy (first wife: Josephine ["Fifi"] Widener), divorced wife of Frederic William Procter, Ivory Soap heir; by drowning when her husband's car, to avoid another, plunged through a guard railing, landed upside down in the shallow Bronx River...