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...ensconced in a spiky forest of prehistoric skeletons with huge tusks and twisted horns. A self-described "fine family's son gone bad," Cartier-Bresson grew up surrounded by art, and it has always been his first love. His father kept a sketchbook and his uncle Louis was a painter who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Villa Médicis. His wealthy Parisian thread-manufacturing family lived in a grand bourgeois neighborhood near the Europe Bridge, famously painted by Gustave Caillebotte. The teenage Cartier-Bresson worked in the studio of society painter Jacques-Emile Blanche...
DIED. CECILE DE BRUNHOFF, 99, who invented the tale of Babar the elephant, which her husband, writer-painter Jean de Brunhoff, and later her son Laurent, turned into the famous, internationally beloved series of illustrated children's books, which now number close to 50; in Paris. To calm her sons Laurent and Mathieu one night in 1930 when the latter was ill, she told the story of an orphaned elephant who flees the jungle and winds up in a big city much like Paris...
Robert Schaffer ’05, a former member of Harvard’s varsity Football team, spent a few nights at the Shakespeare and Company, but left after three days because he found the environment “not conducive to a painter or visual artist mind set.” The former Crimson linebacker quit the team in January and withdrew for the semester in early March, having decided to head to France to immerse himself in the Parisian art scene and explore his artistic potential...
...famed “Madame X,” an image of a society lady with a bared shoulder, scandalized the Parisian Salon in 1884 and got the turn of the century painter chased out of France...
...older brother, James A. Carmichael ’01; Tom Stoppard, the playwright; Bill Waterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes; and Wayne Thiebaud, the painter...