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Picasso tried his hand at a likeness from memory. Spread over three columns, the result (see cut) appeared in the Stalin memorial issue of Les Lettres Françaises, Communist art and literary journal. Gibed the London Daily Mail: "Note the large, melting eyes, the tresses apparently done up in a hair net, and the coyly concealed Mona Lisa smile; it could be the portrait of a woman with a mustache." Two days later, the party Secretariat announced that it "categorically disapproved ... of the portrait," added: "Without doubting the sentiments of the great artist Picasso, whose attachment to the cause...
...Lineal Prig. The lovers of the story are François de Séryeuse, a young Frenchman of good family, and Mahaut, Countess d'Orgel, descended from the old Creole nobility of Martinique, the wife of the Count d'Orgel. When the story begins after World War I, Mahaut is scarcely more than a child and is deeply in love with her husband, a man of 30; "in return, [the count] showed her much gratitude and the warmest friendship, which he himself mistook for love...
...Count d'Orgel, in fact, was a lineal prig, living & breathing for social ritual The Orgels met François de Séryeuse at the circus one night and invited him to lunch. Soon he and Mahaut were talking about their childhood lives in the country. François words refreshed her like a gift of wild flowers...
...little while, François was in love with Mahaut, but the count, though perhaps he sensed it, was not disturbed. If anything, it increased his friendship for François. "The reason was in fact incredible ... We are drawn toward those who flatter us, in whatever way." François, for his part, admired the count. "His admiration was above all for a man capable of being loved by a Mahaut." Furthermore, Orgel began to love his wife from the moment he saw that François loved her, as though he needed the evidence of another...
...Watteau of the Heart. The three drift gently down the garden path of self-deception in a bee-hum of amorous unrest then all at once Mahaut is stung to consciousness. With the realization that she loves François, she begs him to stay away. When he continues his visits anyway she confesses to her husband and begs him to save her. To her amazement, the count is not so much disturbed by her news as by the fact that she has shared it with François' mother. "It is absurd," he says We must find means...