Word: lhote
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...then we all had to bow down like he was God. I used to wear low-heeled shoes so I wouldn't be taller than the men." All that changed when Beverly took up painting and went to live in Paris. She studied with Painters André Lhote and Fernand Léger in Paris, then moved down to the Riviera, where she rented Pablo Picasso's former apartment and tried doing modish abstractions. A few months later, she was traveling in North Africa, and there, in the squalid, poverty-stricken towns, she discovered what she wanted...
...beginning to develop a style, his family took him along on a trip to Paris; Hasan could hardly be pried away from the museums. Once, in a burst of enthusiasm, he scaled up a pedestal to a Rodin bust, hugged & kissed it. His father was studying with Painter Andre Lhote at that time, and one day he took one of Hasan's pictures over to show the master. Lhote seized the painting, thinking it was the senior Kaptan's work. "At last," he exclaimed, "you have found the true feeling of the modern...