Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to Leon Bakst, famed Russian: stage-designer, painter. He died, after a long illness, in Paris where he had spent the last 18 years of his life. While adept in formal painting, he won his greatest fame with his scenic and costume designs for many brilliant ballets produced in France, Russia, England...
Music inspired him, Art fostered him. Born of Jewish parents in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), he claimed direct descent from King David, sweet singer of Israel. This regal lineage bred in him a scorn of Kings. The Tsar of all the Russias made him court painter. One day he painted a picture of the Crucifixion-Holy Mary, in peasant costume, her face twisted with anguish, weeping over the naked body of her peasant son. The authorities condemned the painting. Should peasants mourn their woes where privilege looked on? They displayed it in public with brands of white chalk smeared over...
...fortnight ago, in Manhattan, Painter Zuloaga of Spain would not talk to newspapermen about Spanish politics (TIME, Dec. 29). He talked of the paintings he was about to exhibit in the U. S., and particularly he talked of a dark young man whom he has painted three times?Juan Belmonte. Juan is a bullfighter. He is now in Peru, taking the Inca-fortune that is his due for being a bullfighter?the best bullfighter in all Spain. Unnoticed in Manhattan, where he stopped on his way a few weeks ago, Juan's advent in Peru nearly caused a national holiday...
Died. Leon Bakst, 58, famed Russian painter and stage-designer; in Paris, after a long illness. (See Page...
...again stepped the matador. He danced, he mocked, he swung his scarlet cloak. But this bull was a thief, as they say; he "knew Latin." Drumming hoofs, a broken shout, a thud. "Maria. He is dead!" gasped the onlookers. So ended the last bullfight of Ignacio Zuloaga*, famed Spanish painter...