Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drapers moved to London, where Victorianism was deeply buried under the lush Edwardian bloom. Muriel set about creating a salon to rival Mabel Dodge's villa in Florence. To the Draper home at 19A Edith Grove came such notables as Painter John Singer Sargent, Writers Norman Douglas, Gertrude Stein and Henry James. The great preoccupation at 19A Edith Grove was music, some of it provided by husband Paul, more of it by Cellist Pablo Casals. Pianist Artur Rubinstein or Singer Feodor Chaliapin. Beginning late in the evening, the music often lasted till morning, when everyone would adjourn...
...Paltry Sum. He brushes over dates, rarely discusses his nine children or his second wife, Dorelia MacNeill, to whom he refers simply as "D." The best nuggets are his painter's-eye-view comments on his famed sitters. "[Bernard] Shaw's head," says John, "had two aspects, as he pointed out himself: the concave and the convex . . . When I informed him of my fee, [Shaw exclaimed], 'What! Do you mean to say you work for so paltry a sum?' But before I had time to revise my charges, the cheque was written and handed over...
...saints (and, occasionally, sinner: These paintings, done in weatherproof fresco and retouched every 50 years so, still make scores of Bavarian streets look like open-air picture galleries. Today the art of housepainting is enjoying a boom, thanks largely to the efforts and skill of a Garmisch-Partenkirchen painter named Heinrich Bickel...
...London last week, at an exhibition of French primitives, Bombois' pictures were getting most of the attention. He had sent a portrait, robust circus scenes, romantic riverscapes. His most talked-about painting was Utrillo Kissing His Prayer Book, which shows the famed painter in a white coat, clutching a black prayer book as he faces a wooden crucifix; in the background is a black, star-speckled sky. Most British critics had pleasant things to say about burly old (69) Bombois and his innocent simplicity. Art News & Review. "Bombois is the hero of this exhibition . . . [Utrillo] is an extraordinary piece...
...paintings on show, two were already sold (Utrillo went for ?900). Back in Paris, Camille Bombois was pleased but puzzled. Said he: "After all, I am just a barbouilleur [dauber], and there are lots of artists who paint better than I do . . ." One who heartily agreed with him was Painter Maurice Utrillo's peppery wife, Lucie Valore, who had seen Bombois' painting of her husband in a Paris gallery and sent Bombois an indignant protest: "The expression on Utrillo's face is too demoniacal, and you have painted his nose much...