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Others insist that in his later life he copied his own pictures to make enough money for his charities to fellow painters (Corot once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a ten-year 1,000-franc annuity instead). But as Bachelor Corot grew older, his pictures grew more effeminate, his landscapes became more wishy-washy, more virginal. Famed Critic Julius Meier-Graefe once summed up what was wrong with Corot as a painter by remarking that he "lacked the grain of poison which is the preservative of greatness...
...Parisian art dealers at a sale in Unoccupied France bought a 350,000-franc Renoir, a 250,000-franc Modigliani...
...Suzanne Lenglen, "whom I boldly declare to have possessed, in her delightfully modeled bathing suit, the most beautiful figure of a woman I have ever seen in my life." This harmless, pointless, rootless existence, stirred from time to time, like seaweed in the tide, by the fluctuations of the franc, took up most of Oppenheim's life and takes up most of his autobiography...
Lanny Budd, a sort of contemporary Renaissance Prince, is half-symbol, half-character. Pinkish, amiable, charming, and vaguely uneasy about his softness, he plays prince consort to his rich bride Irma, who in turn plays salonnière in a million-franc-per-year Parisian palace, and who is a comic-strip X-ray of heiress mentality...
...pogroms which followed the mutinied battleship's landing (1905) at Odessa's port. After the Bolshevik Revolution the city was in turn occupied by Austrian, German and French forces, and the monstrous General Simon Petlure (whose murderer a French jury in 1926 acquitted and fined one franc) also had his whacks. Finally in 1920 the Reds took it from the Whites...