Word: forain
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...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...
...Still Life"?a bottle of wine, a bit of cheese, a dish of fruit?was damaged. Jean Louis Forain, of Paris, had painted it 50 years ago, lived with it, domesticated it. Sardonic, he had refused all prices for it. But gentle Homer Saint-Gaudens of Pittsburgh had won permission to exhibit the picture. Old Forain let it travel to the Carnegie International Exhibition, Manhattan...
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...
France. A rare still life by Forain (painted in 1872) already mellowed by time; a strongly accented brown nude by Derain; Edward Vuillard's comfortable "Woman in Front of a Fireplace"; a curiously enervated drawing by Matisse; work by Menard, Besnard Danchez, Le Sidaner, Blanche; a full length painting by witty Guy Pene Du Bois of a nude woman seen from behind while she peeps through a slit in her curtain window at something in the next room...