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...Italy of Fermi's youth was Mus solini's Italy. At first Fascism was merely silly, but as it grew, Fermi began to con sider leaving Italy forever. He made up his mind when Hitler's anti-Semitism flooded over the Alps. The Nobel Prize made escape easy. In 1938 Fermi took his Jewish wife and his two children to Stockholm to receive the prize. After the ceremony, they continued...
Last week, in Paris' Musée de la Marine, De Joinville's watercolors of the U.S. Civil War were on public view for the first time. The property of his great-grandnephew, the Count of Paris, the paintings were being exhibited, in an odd reconciliation of historical opposites, under the joint sponsorship of the count-the Bourbon-Orléans pretender-and the retiring President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol. Among the 60 neatly drawn and pleasantly colored watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene...
...versatile prince, showing a firm hand and a fine sense of the dramatic and the satirical. The French press swelled with artistic and patriotic pride. "A great but misunderstood watercolor artist and promoter of our modern navy," glowed one paper. Seven hundred people a day flocked into the Musée de la Marine to see the work of De Joinville. who once remarked: "Everybody writes his memoirs. I have drawn mine...
Last week the portrait was on public view again for the first time in 14 years. The village of Blérancourt, 67 miles northeast of Paris, staged a special show in its Musée de la Coopération Franco-Américaine, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Whistler's death on July 17, 1903, and the Louvre lent the painting for exhibition until this fall. After that. Whistler's famous parent, sitting so gravely and so quietly in her golden frame, will probably be shipped to the U.S.. so that Americans can have another...
...year-old Guys stumbled into Paris' Musée Carnavalet, sold the curator some 300 of his drawings for $50. Later he wrote his friend, Photographer Felix Nadar, "They aren't worth anything, I know. If you'd like two or three hundred, I'd be glad to send them over...