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Traditionalists were planning stopovers at the Musée Ingres in the Gascon town of Montauban, or the Musée Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi...
...cocktail party): Did you know that in the same year Sigmund Freud wrote The Psychology of Everyday Life-1901-the Trans-Siberian Railway reached Port Arthur, W. Normann discovered the process for hardening liquid fats, the British Academy was founded, Walt Disney was born, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec died...
...already using girls from a Bucharest bordello as mod els. This in itself was nothing new: Toulouse-Lautrec had endlessly sketched prostitutes, and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d' Avignon represents a famous brothel. But for Pascin, prostitutes be came both his main subject and a way of life, and in many ways he found his brush with life more important than his brush with the canvas...
...painter who looked like a postal clerk on the point of tears. Bonnard was, in fact, a failed lawyer who fell in with artists in Paris, and never recovered until he died at 79. His range was nearly as wide as his lifespan: Paris posters resembling those of Toulouse-Lautrec, portraits of midinettes with the geisha gestures of Hiroshige figures, pointillistic experiments with gossamer landscapes, indolent nudes. In the preface, Critics Jean Cassou and Raymond Cogniat try to define Bonnard's place in modern art. Their conclusion: his true place is "outside time...
Paradiso is an eye opener only when Photographer Henri Decae has charge, for his views of Paris during la belle époque make decades melt away-particularly in a smoky, golden café scene reminiscent of Lautrec, with portly naiads up to their chins in gym suits and a matronly stripper dismantling her corsetry on an overhead swing. Also visible behind the potted palms and spiral staircases is Director Peter Glenville, impersonating Playwright Feydeau. Glenville as Feydeau wears a wise, conspiratorial expression, presumably to suggest that middle-class morality can be terribly droll. But Glenville as Glenville hasn...