Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referring to the painting of Gabrielle d'Estrées, one of Henri IV's mistresses, reproduced in the Oct. 3 issue, you mention her mirrored profile "which disobeys all known laws of reflection." Has it not occurred to your Art editor that the reflection in the mirror is that of a lady-in-waiting, not seen elsewhere in the painting...
...page) were unknown even to the leading painters of his own day. Not until 1930, when one of his paintings, Peaceable Kingdom (of which Hicks completed some 80 versions), was found in an antique-dealer's attic, was his name even known. The similarity of his work to Henri Rousseau's and a new appreciation of primitives, quickly placed Hicks as one of the most original of early American artists: the late French Painter Fernand Léger called him "the finest American of them...
Even royal mistresses, such as Henri IV's Gabrielle d'Estrees (see color page), posed to show their full, solid voluptuousness revealed under the thinnest of gossamer veils. To hold a king's roving eye, Painter François Bunel the Younger needed all his Mannerist tricks: he shifted the focus endlessly within the frame, from head and face to breasts to Gabrielle's arched, elegant hand holding a ring, then to maidservant, and finally to Gabrielle's mirrored profile, which disobeys all known laws of reflection...
Eventually, the quints are reunited with Papa Saint-Forget at the big birthday party, and the film winds up in fine farcical style with an ending that is obvious yet surprising, tickling credulity while taxing it. The film has been subtly directed by Henri Verneuil, handsomely produced by Raoul Ploquin, admirably helped with a good supporting cast. But Fernandel is a Judas goat who leads every minute of Sheep to its zany consummation. With the slightest nuances of his elastic face-a leer, a bucktoothed grin, a cocker-spaniel look of sadness-he proves that...
...apprentice, but his heart was still at the fronton. French Tennis Champion Jean ("The Bounding Basque") Borotra, a fine pelotari himself, took the youngster under his wing, brought him to Paris and taught him tennis. Urruty was soon good enough to go on an exhibition tour with French Tennist Henri Cochet...