Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came from a yellowed packet of papers and a few disputed paintings found in out-of-the-way monasteries. That year, the first Zurbaran exhibit in modern times was held in Madrid, and the experts marveled that so little was known of the artist whom King Philip IV named "painter of the King and king of painters...
...show makes plain the fact that for a man of his high standing Léger is notably primitive. The most recent oil in the exhibition is a hard, startling arabesque called The Builders (opposite). Painter Léger, 72, who finished the picture in 1950, says that in it he "tried to achieve the most violent contrasts by opposing minutely realistic human figures with clouds and metallic structures." If the workers, perched on their unfinished skyscraper, are far from "minutely realistic," they do look surprisingly human-for Léger. The tough old man, who has spent a lifetime...
...Painter Goya-who died eight years after he finished the picture-presented Self Portrait to his physician as a gift; later it traveled around private collections in Madrid and Paris until 1952, when a Manhattan art gallery brought it to the U.S. What the Minneapolis Institute paid for it no one would say, but art critics consider it among Goya's best works...
...arts lost a great modern painter and a world-renowned Russian musician famous for his Peter and the Wolf...
...Asked to design a ceiling for the ornate Salle Henri II at Paris' famed Palais du Louvre was spry 70-year-old French painter...