Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studio in Fordingbridge, 75 miles from London, looked oddly unlike the workshop of a great painter. Instead of easel and brushes, a wheelbarrow full of clay stood in the center of the room, the wooden kitchen table was littered with well-used sculptor's tools, and finished and unfinished busts rested on pedestals or were swaddled in damp cloth. But for all the strange clutter, it was the studio of Britain's dean of portraitists: bearded crusty old Augustus John, still vigorous and sharp-eyed at 74. In the six months, John has picked up the sculptor...
...done 50 portraits of Dodo. I know how she looks, don't I? She has a flat place here. And he would punch his thumb into the clay. Says Fiore: "I couldn't keep him away." Finally she brought down a set of tools for the old painter, and he has been sculpturing ever since...
Moulin Rouge. Director John Huston's colorful, exuberant film biography of French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; with José Ferrer (TIME...
...Moulin Rouge, José Ferrer plays the role of tormented French painter...
Moulin Rouge. Director John Huston's colorful, exuberant film biography of French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; with José Ferrer (TIME...