Word: negress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Maremont collection includes three Leger pictures, three Hun-dertwassers, nine Dubuffets and 33 Klees, many of Maremont's most illustrious acquisitions are sculptures, among them Brancusi's mellifluous bronze Blonde Negress. Much of his art was bought on Maremont's twice-a-year buying trips to Europe. For many years, Maremont and his wife have been fixtures at the Venice Biennale, renting large boats and treating their 90-odd passengers to champagne evenings on the Grand Canal...
...girl's background. I can no longer tell who is rich and who is poor, or even who is black and who is white." Significantly enough, Swados made this comment with complete case to the reporters, and a group of three Sarah Lawrence girls which included a very light negress...
...must be shown in an exact replica of his old studio. For five years the museum dragged its feet, and it was not until this month that the public could see the studio reproduced, at last cracks and all. There were his rusting tool's the gleaming Blond Negress, the blocklike figures of the Kiss, various versions of the Comb, all looking like upside-down thunderbolts, and a wooden King of Kings resembling vises piled on top of each other, topped by an egg. Each day Brancusi had caressed these pieces, and each night covered them with cloth...