Word: perfielieff
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...strollers, screwing up their eyes, appraised again the astonishingly mongrel collection of Haitian types done by the expedition's third artist. He, Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfielieff, onetime captain of Cossacks, had a story to tell about painting Haitians...
...worked with brush and palette at Port-au-Prince, painting in the streets, his models picked from among passersby, Artist Perfielieff became conscious that his work aroused not merely interest but indignation. What Metropolitan critics Would see as dazzling, grotesque or smartly degenerate the Haitians saw as libels on themselves. Finally the editor of Le Novelliste (Port-au-Prince) thundered: "If there existed a leper settlement, or sanitarium for paralytics, it is certain that this painter would probably go there in search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered...
...Manhattan newsgatherers, pleasant Cossack Perfielieff had ready a suave explanation: "I did not consider the Le Novelliste article as an attack on me personally," he said, "but rather as a chance to attack the United States authorities and their government...
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