Word: lithographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easily to problems of illustration. Eugène Delacroix, a Romantic from his flowing locks to his patent leather pumps, found a congenial subject in Hamlet. Honoré Daumier brought his genius for social satire to a masterpiece in the same genre: Don Quixote. And Edouard Manet made a lithograph after Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven that would have delighted would-be-Parisian Poe's anxious heart...
...show-organized to benefit the Woodstock Artists Welfare Fund and its "Rest Room Building Fund"-drew contributions from dozens of citizens whose reputations, and prices, are sizable. The townspeople paid $25 a ticket to drink to its success and take home a Doris Lee lithograph of plump bathers in a black pool. Four winning ticket holders got a good deal more: their choice of any painting or sculpture in the place. The fortunate four picked Anton Refregier's crisp figure piece, Boy Drying Rope, a lush little still life by Sigmund Menkes, a thickly sketched townscape by Eugene Ludins...
...never thought that TIME would print, and in color, a picture for which I posed. But you very obligingly did so with your Dufy lithograph in the Dec. 14 issue. When I was a drama student in Paris, early in 1937, I was asked if I would pose for Raoul Dufy in his Montmartre atelier for a picture to go into the soon-to-open International Exposition. I gladly accepted, and found that I was to be Archimedes [see cut] in what a studio aide called une peinture qui sera vraiment extraordinaire. Dufy frocked me in a white toga-like...
...sections. The artist, who considered La Fée Electricité one of his masterpieces, worried over its neglect, and sought some way to keep his gigantic work on view. The answer was provided by a Paris publisher, who proposed that Dufy reproduce the mural as a color lithograph. Dufy set to work in 1951 and, shortly before his death in March 1953, completed the most ambitious lithography project ever undertaken: three feet high by 20 wide, done in 22 colors and printed in ten sheets (recently put on sale...
...detail from the lithograph reproduced on the opposite page shows some of the natural sources of electric power and a few of the men whose philosophical and scientific knowledge helped open up the mysteries of electrical energy to man. The other panel (overleaf) is a fanciful melange of the places (Rome, Paris, London, New York) and purposes (broadcasting music, guiding an airplane) which electricity serves. As Poet Wallace Stevens wrote in an essay accompanying the Dufy lithograph: "It is an exploitation of fact by a man of elevation. It is a surface of prose changeable with the luster of poetry...