Word: modiglianis
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...curios in the homelands of the traders. Not until shortly after the turn of the Century, when the founders of modern art loudly proclaimed their independence, was the artistic merit of these mementos of the slave trade generally appreciated. Young modernists like Jacob Epstein, Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, were profoundly affected by West African sculpture. Today an African mask or two is as necessary for the apartment of a young-man-about-Paris as lounging pajamas and a bottle of port...
...stocks" are the hothouse prices of modernist paintings. Swank gallery connections, smartchart plugging, the humors of art critics and socialite fads too often puff them out of line with real values. Last week for the first time since 1927 works by such debatable modernists as Amédé Modigliani, Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Jules Pascin and Maurice Utrillo were opened to the rude winter blast of a public auction in Manhattan's Rains Auction Rooms. Before a hard-boiled dealer and socialite crowd, one of Modigliani's tuberculous women sold for the evening's top price...
...Raymond Radeguet sitting every evening at the Boeuf surle Toit and drinking with-out moving his "stubborn eyelids." There is chirico, the Surrealist, and Maurice Rostand, who lived with his mother in haughty, respectable rooms looking out on the Arc de Triomphe de 1'Etoile, Matisse, Madame Chanel, Modigliani, and James Joyce, and Jose Maria Sert, who is now decoration part of Radio City. There are almost too many of them; one gains no very precise picture of any one, or of the whole; one is befuddled...
...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...