Word: ischia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prince Henry started painting shortly after World War II in a run-down family castle in Germany. When his royal Italian grandparents went into Egyptian exile in 1946, he followed them, had his first show in Alexandria. Now he lives on the Italian island of Ischia, painting dreamlike scenes from "a world that is forever gone and finished." His pictures are filled with sculptured formal gardens, marble statuary, gay toy balloons-and a fine, whimsical sense of humor. In Reverie, a classic marble statue, all played out from sailing a paper boat, lies sleeping near a river, still clutching...
...gentle sensibility while coaxing locomotives up to 75 miles an hour; the son works up power standing before an easel. Among his early subjects were slaughterhouse carcasses-gleaming slabs of meat and bone which caught his eye in the local abattoirs. Later came the fishermen and bathers of Ischia, where he is living, and rock-hard women like the one at right. He works on as many as 20 canvases at once, explains that "they are all slowly maturing...