Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jean Julien Lemordant, Breton painter, made art his bride until 1914. Then he divorced...
...money bag. The story accompanying these pictures was written by Margery Rex (the name of any young lady whom Mr. Hearst may employ to write this type of story). The narrative told how Lady Louise Mountbatten had jilted the Crown Prince of Sweden out of love for a poor painter, frustrating the ambition of King George to marry his kinsmen to people to wealth. Said Miss Margery Rex: "You mustn't think George V takes tips or percentages off the weddings of his kin to persons of means"-the point being that King George is worried about supporting poor...
Sorolla was an accomplished portrait painter, but his special eminence comes from his handling of sunlight and water in combination. His figure pieces at the seashore are full of flowing line, quivering color, spacious luminosity. Typifying these qualities are the fine group in the Metropolitan, including Swimmers, full-length nude boys seen through transparent green water; After the Bath, a young woman emerging from the sea in a clinging yellow bathing suit, while her swain stands behind, holding a white sheet in which to wrap her; Beaching the Boat, Valencia, peasant sailors guiding three yoke of brown oxen, dragging...
Jean Jacques Henner, the dulcet Alsatian painter of interchangeable virgins, Magdalenes and nymphs in melting browns and reds, now has a museum all to himself in the Avenue de Villiers, Paris, recently dedicated by President Millerand...
...rebuke: "One cannot permit an artist of Lavery's distinction and age to be insulted like that." Lady Lavery and Lady Cunard are both Americans, and the rejection has been ascribed by some to anti-American prejudice. Others see in the incident a well laid scheme of the painter to have his wife immortalized in the exclusive gallery. The predilections of the committee are toward the French school...