Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with whom she used to play in the back yard of the Hoffman house on Manhattan's West 43rd St. It was while peering out of a front window from that same house that scrawny little Malvina first felt the surge of excitement at the sight of the nude human figure that is the driving force behind most great sculptures. A suicidal beauty across the street slipped out of her nightgown and dived into a snowbank 30 feet below, narrowly missing a passing postman...
...exported from Italy. Averaging $5,000 apiece in price, all were the work of suave, spectacled Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski. At the same time word came from Paris that the Ministry of Fine Arts had decided to invest French taxpayers' money in two Lovet-Lorski pieces: a bronze nude for the Beaux Arts and a big, ivory marble head for the Musee du Luxembourg's foreign section...
TIME erred grievously in its issue of July 13, or that of Aug. 31. The former places Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase in Cleveland until Oct. 4; while your last issue transports the picture to Hollywood. I am prone to believe that it remains in Cleveland, having attempted to interpret it while attending the 20th Anniversary Exhibition there last week...
...Texas Rangers (Paramount) represents Hollywood's most determined effort to date to capitalize that glorious period of a State in the making, of which the amusement possibilities have already been so strikingly demonstrated by Showman Billy Rose and his Fort Worth Nude Ranch...
Year later when the exhibition opened in Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, newspaper critics who were uncertain how to treat Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, leaped at the Nude Descending a Staircase as a safe object of ridicule. Daily stories announced that it had been hung upside down, that it was the work of a madman. The picture was promptly bought by the late San Francisco Art Dealer Frederic C. Torrey who sold it to Author Walter Arensberg...