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...firm tow of the grandmotherly Mme. de Gaulle. Trailing behind her black bubbletop Citroen were her mother-in-law, Rose Kennedy, her sister, Princess Radziwill, Sister-in-Law Eunice Shriver, and a bevy of lesser ladies in waiting. At the Jeu de Paume Museum, French Minister for Culture André Malraux whisked her past the collection of impressionist paintings in a breakneck 45 minutes. "I have just seen the most beautiful paintings in the world," gasped Jackie as she returned to the rain-splashed street. (Her favorite: Olympia, a reclining nude by Manet...
Died. Pierre-Gauthier Malraux, 21, Paris University political science student, and Vincent Malraux, 17, Lycée student in Paris, sons of French novelist, art expert and Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux and his late second wife, Novelist Josette Clotis; when a car driven by the older brother struck a tree on their way back to Paris after a Mediterranean holiday; near Dijon...
...Delacroix, a hundred years ago, had been shown the works illustrated in this volume, he would not have seen them," writes André Malraux in his introduction. "They lay outside his range of vision and, had his attention been directed to them, they would have seemed to him devoid of any esthetic value." Half a century ago, the civilization of Sumer was scarcely known; more important, the vision of even Europe's finest artists was almost entirely bound by their own tradition. It has long been Malraux's thesis that only lately has man been able to peer...
...that flourished around Autun; by the time the $7,000,000 project is complete, virtually every place and period will have been covered. With six publishing houses in various countries involved, each volume will appear in Paris, Milan, Madrid, Munich, London, New York and eventually Tokyo. For Sumer, Malraux himself chose the 557 black-and-white and color illustrations, often sending photographers back to shoot a particular work for a second time. Once Malraux was satisfied, the photographs were dispatched to the various publishers in specially upholstered, hermetically sealed trucks that were ordered to travel no faster than 25 m.p.h...
...daring appointment. The Villa Medici, like its parent school, the Beaux-Arts of Paris, has never been known for its tolerance of individualism. Of all the French artists sent there, only David and Ingres stand out as painters of the first rank. Malraux's plan is to give the Villa a new vitality. "This is what I propose," he told his friend Balthus. "A second ambassador in Italy. An ambassador of French culture. I would have conferences, receptions, movement!" Balthus was delighted to accept...