Word: modigliani
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Society swells and bohemians alike flocked to Foujita's exhibitions. Utrillo and Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss...
...Boccioni, included two of his more famous contemporaries who had followed highly individual paths of their own. One of them, Giorgio de Chirico (who has since become a crusty academician-TIME, May 16), was represented by some of his striking early work foreshadowing the Surrealists. The other was Amedeo Modigliani, a much-loved, short-lived alcoholic who was at his best painting tender nudes and portraits based on African sculpture...
Staggered by the Artists League of America: Yankee Hitter Joe DiMaggio, who found himself on the league's list of "the ten most interesting faces in America." Long-jawed Joe's face, bubbled the artists, was "reminiscent of Modigliani's paintings." Among the other most interesting: Eleanor Roosevelt, Danny Kaye, Sinclair Lewis and Kate Smith. What made Singer Smith's face so interesting: its "simplicity, understanding and kindness...
...last week Modigliani the man was half-forgotten, but the artist was in the news again. An exhibition of 31 of his portraits and seven of his nudes was packing Parisians into the swank Calorie de France. Paintings which he had once sold for the price of a few drinks were valued at 1,000,000 francs. Said an art critic of L'Ordre: "Modigliani became a legend the day of his death. Everyone was bewildered at not having encouraged, supported, foreseen his genius...
...Nose, Swan Shoulders. One of the best canvases in the show was Modigliani's portrait of his mistress Jeanne Hebuterne (see cut), who, big with child, committed suicide by jumping from a fifth floor window, after Modigliani died. From her wide, red-skirted hips to the top of her brown hair, the artist had turned his mistress into a slow, serpentine spiral, given her an other-worldly beauty which would be horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan...