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Thirty-two paintings by Yugoslavia's foremost woman artist were exhibited in Manhattan last week by the United Yugoslav Relief Fund. The artist: Milena Pavlovitch Barilli, who signs her pictures "Milena," is a cousin of Yugoslavia's young King Peter...
...Milena's pictures revealed a smooth, sculptural quality, a command of detail, a passion for realism possessed by few modern painters. They recall the 15th-Century Italians. In St. John, the artist's favorite, the almost incredible detail of the long golden locks of hair might have been done by the hand of Fra Filippo Lippi, the veins on the hands and arms by the Surrealist virtuoso Salvador Dali. In Silence the delicacy of the veil over the sleeping girl's face, the pearl-like drops of water, suggested the Dutch masters. Milena's superb taste...
However much he is criticized Stravinsky continues to go his own strange and independent way. He makes no excuse for his frequent concert appearances. He has a family to support in France: a wife who is his cousin, an 80-year-old mother, four children-Feodor and Milena who paint, Sviatoslav, a pianist, Milka, who is not yet grown. At the mention of his children last week Stravinsky declared: "God be with them, there shall be no more...
Died.-Former Queen Milena of Montenegro, 76, at Antibes, France. Born the daughter of an army captain, at 13 she married Prince Nicholas, who later became king. She had seven daughters, four of whom made royal matches-with the present King of Italy, the late King Peter of Serbia, Grand Duke Peter of Russia, the Duke of Leuchtenberg. It was announced that the marriage of her granddaughter, Princess Yolanda, of Italy, with Count Calvi, in which she was greatly interested, will take place on April 9, as previously planned...