Word: modigliani
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promoter of modern art. His business is purveying, to the very rich, old masters, antique statuary, tapestries and furniture. But hoarse-voiced M. Brummer is also a sculptor. He was once a pupil of the late great Auguste Rodin. He knew Henry Rousseau, he lent money to hollow-eyed Modigliani. At the top of his furniture shop is a chaste, grey-hung room where each year he holds four or five carefully chosen exhibitions of modern painters little known to the U. S. public...
...paints landscapes and murals, collects pictures, writes books about them. For the past two years a handsome series of yellow-bound quartos on Modern Art have been appearing over the colophon of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Maud Dale wrote two of these books, one on Picasso, one on Modigliani. Booksellers know that not Alfred Knopf but Maud Dale is paying the publication cost of the whole series...
...from the fact that the first Pascin exhibition contained some of his worst pictures, the second most of his best, between the two shows the artist himself suddenly and horribly committed suicide. To the general public he is already becoming a Character, classed with Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Modigliani, Van Gogh, and Lord Byron, among the rips, rakes, and naughty fellows of the arts...
...Amadeo Modigliani . . . was a sensitive young draughtsman and had in him possibilities as a colorist which might have been interestingly fulfilled had he lived. But he was given to unfortunate distortions, providing the sitters for his portraits with absurdly elongated throats, slit-like eyes and swerving noses, and to make matters worse he kept repeating these malformations until his portraiture suggests the functioning of a thin stencil...
...glossy smartchart Vanity Fair. In its blithe, monthly blurbs Vanity Fair pictures its subscribers as impeccably draped ladies and gentlemen in rhomboidal furniture, who sigh with appreciation at the dissonances of Darius Milhaud and will scarcely trouble themselves to look at painting earlier than that of Amadeo Modigliani...