Word: lany
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...beautiful? Is she thin, fat, dropsical, anemic, senile, kittenish or reptilian? Last week Manhattanites asked these questions about Maria Lani, French cinemactress. For in the august Brummer Gallery was an exhibition of 51 representations of this one woman. She was "done" in marble, metal, paint, on a platter, on a piece of glass...
There were 47 works by French painters and sculptors, two by French poets, one by a dressmaker.* With the exception of Pablo Picasso, almost every famed name in modern French painting was represented. Henri Matisse saw Lani in three lines, Andre Derain painted her very swarthily, Haim Soutine as a Spectre. One painter gave her 14 eyes, another seven, another one. She was seen as a machine, as a horned toad, as a Negress. Galleryman Brummer shrewdly put no photographs of her on exhibition...
...Marie Lani lives in the Montparnasse (art colony) section of Paris. Amused at her facial mobility, a few painters sketched her; she showed the results to her friend Galleryman Joseph Brummer. He became enthusiastic, told her to get a dozen or so and he would exhibit them. The Editions des Quatre Chemins of Paris has issued a book of reproductions of the portraits...