Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After eight years of putting up with aging (72) Painter Pablo Picasso, his peace doves and his two-faced doodlings, Fellow Artist Françoise Gillot abandoned the master at his studio on the Riviera, bundled herself and their two children, Claude, 6, and Paloma, 4, back to Paris. Said she: "I was tired of living with a historical monument...
...Though there is evidence that some artistic talent was passed on to the children and grandchildren of Gauguin and his Danish wife Mette: son Jean René, 72, is a noted Copenhagen sculptor, and son Pola, 70, an ex-painter, is now an art critic in Oslo. Among the grandchildren: a promising painter and a maker of woodcuts...
Early last year a French painter who was working in Tahiti noted the fascination with which native children crowded around his easel. He distributed paper and crayons to the children, and his example was later followed by the local French administration...
Died. Francis Picabia, 75, wealthy, erratic French-born Cuban painter; of arteriosclerosis; in Paris. A bored, respectable success at 35, Picabia joined the madcap Dadaist revolt against tradition during the 20s, in 1950 enraged Paris critics with a deadpan display of canvases, each enlivened only by a colored dot placed just off center...
...women done so well? One of the exhibition judges, Painter Francis Chapin (TIME, March 23), offered his own explanation: "It seems so many women won because they were hard workers, not tremendously experimental, and sound painters...