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...eyed Israel Litwak. a stocky little grey-fringed man, was too old to make furniture any more. At 68. he was not even up to varnishing, and so he lost his job. "Then," he recalls, "all of a sudden came out of me an artist...
...Litwak is 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...
Like most contemporary primitives, Litwak is a far less sophisticated artist than the Cro-Magnon whose paintings, the earliest known, were found in a cave at Altamira,. Spain. The caveman's graceful, seemingly off-hand study of a charging bison was obviously true to life but Litwak's view of the Metropolitan Museum (see cut) is just as obviously a cockeyed, childlike impression, painted with the cramped, awkward care of an adult artisan. Explains Artist Litwak, whose colors are as hot and heavy as a fur coat in June: "I must have everything correct, just...
...object to almost incessant renditions of the picture's otherwise unremarkable waltz theme song. Be Mine Tonight was first made in German by UFA. Gaumont-British sent a supporting cast to Berlin to remake it in English. Universal liked the British version-directed by Russian Director Anatole Litwak-enough to buy the U. S. rights...