Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving from France to be treated at Boston's Jewish Memorial Hospital, Raoul Dufy, 72, famed left-handed painter of gay race-track and beach scenes, admitted that "art and arthritis are the two most important things in my life. I must try to prevent one from killing the other...
...When Painter Edvard Munch wrote these words in Paris, in 1890, he was a slick, gloomy art student of 26 with the whole world still to conquer. By the time he died at 80, Munch's unabashedly emotional art was revered throughout northern Europe. Last week, for the first time, it got a comprehensive showing...
...Willhelm Morgenstierne, Ambassador to the U.S., will deliver the keynote address opening the first American exhibition of the works of the Norwegian painter, Edvard Munch, in Fogg Museum at 4 p.m. today...
Boxer-turned-Painter William Grant Sherry, 35, who last fall managed to patch up a loudly publicized spat with his cinemactress wife Bette Davis, 42> was in trouble again. Sherry had noisily broken up a party at the RKO studio, where the cast of The Story of a Divorce had just presented Actress Davis with a monstrous trophy for being "a good egg" (see cut). When he heard that his didoes had prompted highstrung Bette to resume divorce proceedings, the ex-pug unburdened himself to the press: "I'm tired of being pushed around. She was the breadwinner...
...shop in Florence, asked the proprietress if she had "anything old" on hand. She opened a drawer, pulled out a wooden panel containing a portrait of 16th Century Venetian Doge Leonardo Lore-dano, observed that she had long thought it might be the work of the great Venetian painter, Gentile Bellini. Heil took a sharp look, decided she was probably right and closed the sale on the spot. Later, Italian experts confirmed his verdict, and he shipped the picture...