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Unlike poor Vincent van Gogh, who left his unsold paintings to his family only to have more than 500 of them disappear through carelessness and neglect, Abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky was a lucky man. He left a huge legacy of his work to his former mistress, and they survived world wars, revolutions, putsches, even the fury of a woman scorned. The woman scorned was Gabriele Munter, Kandinsky's mistress for more than 13 years, who never once looked at the pictures the old master left with her in 1914. Last month, on her 80th birthday, frail, white-haired Gabriele turned...
...Venetian rules-"A little Mass in the morning, a little gamble in the afternoon, and a little lady in the evening"-he paid lip service to the first, indulged rarely in the second, concentrated wholeheartedly on the third. While priest of San Luca in Venice, he took as his mistress Angioletta Bellaudi, a married woman who had been little better than a prostitute since the age of ten. Their first child barely missed being born on a sidewalk, with Father da Ponte probably acting as midwife ("The kind of incident that happens every day," he said). Ignoring a reprimand...
...Jean-Baptiste is damned. What is so wrong with him, anyway? Readers may have to brace themselves for the answer given by French Novelist Albert Camus (The Plague). It is not fashionable, like the Oedipus complex or alcoholism or a nagging mistress. Jean-Baptiste is under Adam's curse, original sin. Such a theme would be no novelty from François Mauriac or Graham Greene, but it is surprising when it comes from an existentially-minded French intellectual. As a novelist, Camus dissipates his shock effect by telling his story in a long-winded flashback. As a thinker...
...which the future of his career depends, is to prepare a memorial show about the deceased great man. In interviewing the people who worked with Fuller he discovers, however, that the idol of millions of fans was a phoney, detested by everybody who knew him. Not even his mistress could stand the man. The simple device which keeps up a creditable amount of suspense throughout the series of interviews which make up the body of the film is the question of whether the reporter will make the memorial show into a fake eulogy or tell the truth. The solution...
...time), top Rembrandt price of the year. What makes the painting choice is that it dates from Rembrandt's early 50s, when he had risen by force of character above the shallows of his personal life to enter his last and greatest period. In Woman Weeping, his mistress and favorite model, Hendrickje Stoffels (who was censured repeatedly by the church elders for her life with Rembrandt), appears in a masterful psychological portrait depicting a woman caught during the fleeting moment when she has just managed to stifle her sobs. It may well be a study for a late Rembrandt...