Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italians through paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens and Hals, and on into a luxurious display of French impressionists. Included for the first time were 33 brand-new purchases which had not even been seen in Sao Paulo. Centerpiece of the show: a fine Renoir, Baigneuse au Griffon, a nude against a background of muted brown...
...vocabulary at my command"-only to find himself clutching the hand of a fallen sister and begging her to reform. He even took one young prostitute to live with him and "encouraged her to weep over her vile life." He "read books to her every night," while she "lay nude . . . listening like one bewitched." Disillusionment came when the young shepherd returned home unexpectedly and found his lamb folded into bed with "a man with a large mustache." Beside the bed sat a second gent, waiting his turn. Poor Hecht fled "this hellish sight"-but not without recalling appropriate words...
Among the honorable portraits of 13 former mayors of the Japanese city of Moji (pop. 110,000) which hang in the office of Municipal Assembly President Kiichi Suematsu, the likeness of an Occidental dignitary was placed. It was the celebrated nude calendar photograph (3 ft. by 2 ft.) of a recent visitor to Japan, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Explained Assembly President Suematsu, whose idea it was to round out his gallery: "The picture should serve to rejuvenate our municipal assemblymen...
...expressed their common joy when he remarked that "the artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance." Thomas Eakins expressed their straightforwardness while teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. For insisting on using nude models in class, he was forced to resign. (Later, in one of his most famed paintings of a nude-overleaf-Eakins soberly included the chaperone...
...yield to no one in admiration of Renoir and actually have 29 of his works, of all periods, presently hanging. But paintings and painters do gradually use up and outlast their popularity ... In 1950 we here accepted the gift of Picasso's Nude Woman (1910), closely equivalent to the Tate's purchase. A 57th Street dealer tells us the going price for it would be $25,000, if anything equivalent were attainable−so a price of, say, $12,500 for the Tate Picasso would scarcely be at an inflated price...