Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris last week, after arguing the point for 18 months, representatives of French Painter Maurice Utrillo finally convinced a court that he had not painted some 30 pictures bearing his name. The bogus Utrillos, the court decided, had been put in circulation by Jean Pinson-Berthet, ex-partner of Utrillo's art dealer. The damage to Utrillo's up & down reputation was set at 2,000,000 francs ($5,714). Pinson-Berthet, who had disappeared, was sentenced to five years imprisonment...
Divorced. By Cinemactress Bette (Of Human Bondage) Davis, 42: William Grant Sherry, 35, boxer turned painter; after 4½ years of marriage, one daughter; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (see PEOPLE...
...moons, circles, eyes, teeth and amorphic blobs loosely knit together with wandering black lines. There were also sculptures and such: highly polished pear-sized bronzes and "objects" made of bricks, rusty wire and old bones. All these things were produced by Joán Miró, a Spanish-born painter-sculptor who has long been a fashionable exponent of all that is doodliest in modern art (TIME...
...Paris sophisticates were delighted with the show. Orson Welles, Painter Georges Braque and Poet Paul Eluard were all on hand at the opening. Another poet, Jacques Prévert, had written a catalogue foreword which described Miró as "a smiling innocent gardener who strolls about in the garden of his dreams among the wild flowers of Multicolorado." It was a strange country, but Miro's multicolored Multicolorado did exert a cloudy charm on sympathetic visitors-just as children's paintings often...
Died. Eliel Saarinen, 76, Finnish-born architect, longtime President of the Cranbrook Academy of Art; in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. A painter in his youth, Saarinen won his first success with the elegantly simple Finnish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1900, later designed the Helsinki railroad station and Finland's National Museum. An old friend of Frank Lloyd Wright and functionalism, Saarinen emigrated to the U.S. in 1923, designed (with his son) the Tanglewood Mass, music center and the Des Moines Fine Arts Center, worked unceasingly on his far-seeing city planning schemes...