Word: kanes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...already hankering after the mantle of famed Primitive Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), the Parisian customs inspector who retired to paint leafy jungle fantasies, without ever having seen a jungle. Says Litwak of Rousseau: "Plenty to criticize, but all right." He prefers him to Pittsburgh's late John Kane, long considered the No. 1 U.S. primitive, who painted fussy toy trains and muscular self-portraits. Nowadays the field is crowded with such deliberate amateurs as upstate New York's 85-year-old "Grandma" Moses (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) and fellow Brooklynite Morris Hirshfield, 73-year-old retired slipper manufacturer...
Alioune Mamadou Kane came to Paris from his native Senegal in the early '30s. A spear-tall (6 ft. 8 in.), mission-trained blackamoor, he made a living by driving a taxi and hawking West African gewgaws. Then, at the 1937 Paris International Exposition, he performed as a fakir. It became a habit...
When the war broke out, Mamadou Kane became an officer of French Senegalese troops. After the defeat of 1940, he donned his royal robes again. The Germans were impressed. They gave him an office in the Hotel Scribe, winked when the Prince of Zombie became a prince of black marketeers...
This month Mamadou Kane, accused of collaboration with the enemy, stood before a Paris court of justice. For two hours he wept, beat his breast, gestured royally, proclaimed his innocence like a prophet...
...where did you get all the money?" "I had my faithful flock, just like the Pope." The Court was unimpressed. Last week Kane began five years' hard labor...