Word: forain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under U. S. Painter Maurice Sterne, who was a member of this year's jury of award. Conspicuously absent from the exhibition are the works of greatly famed artists. Among the well known names represented were: Sir John Lavery, who paints interiors, genre and Lady Lavery; Jean Louis Forain, famed French satirist; Bernard Boutet de Monvel, chic portraitist, one-time fashion artist for Publisher Condé Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair). Many of the painters are hitherto unknown to the U. S. One of them-Mme. Tamara de Lempicka -attracted much attention with her monotone grey Portrait of Doctor...
...nothing that was incoherent. Gaugin's bizarre self-portrait seemed to link his face with his own favorite Tahitian fruits; the sardonic humor of the piece was queer but clear. He displayed also a serene Breton landscape, a lovely canvas which could cause no retching among the most conservative. Forain's aphrodisiac The Charleston showed two vibrant white dancers, several paunchy satyr-spectators, was a triumph of contemporary comment. Picasso's The Mother, a suggestion of haggard peasantry, was as successful in another field. There were gusty, sulphurous landscapes by de Vlaminck, fanciful figures in delicately modulated colors by Eugene...
...Esperey, pay tribute to the military virtues of the Commonwealth armies. And there are messages from President Gaston Doumergue, onetime Premier Georges Clemenceau and many another French notable, as well as some poems by the Countess Mathieu de Noailles. The book ends with a drawing by Jean Louis Forain depicting a poilu watching the eastern frontier of France, which is held to emphasize the military and political value of British friendship to the French...
Hours passed. Brutal Forain caricatures from the pages of Figaro, Le Eire haunted the worried Saint-Gaudens. The irony of Daumier was nothing to that of his disciple, Forain, who became only more venomous with age. (He is now 73.) Came, at last, the reply: "I permit no one to touch my painting. Forain alone can repair that which has been damaged. Return the painting to me at once by first steamer...
Next day, gentle Saint-Gaudens sailed for France. Said he: "Forain is a very devil of a man and his anger is terrible to behold...