Word: picasso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were 47 works by French painters and sculptors, two by French poets, one by a dressmaker.* With the exception of Pablo Picasso, almost every famed name in modern French painting was represented. Henri Matisse saw Lani in three lines, Andre Derain painted her very swarthily, Haim Soutine as a Spectre. One painter gave her 14 eyes, another seven, another one. She was seen as a machine, as a horned toad, as a Negress. Galleryman Brummer shrewdly put no photographs of her on exhibition...
...read Dante and lived alone." This solitude was short lived. Paris studios boiled with the revolutionary ideas of the Fauves (Wild Beasts)* and no intelligent young painter could ignore them. Modigliani quickly exhausted his Italian academism, delved into the cubism and Negro sculpture which preoccupied his new friends, Picasso, Matisse, Derain and Braque. He became alcoholic and consumptive, affected voluminous trousers, a gay scarf, a wide-brimmed black hat. He lived in grubby Montparnasse with one Jeanne Hebuterne who bore him a child. He was known as the poorest man in Paris. Meanwhile he painted steadily and achieved a personal...
...Picasso's part in the showing will be filled by "The Bathers," 1923; "The Lovers," 1924; "Landscape," 1924 and "Harlequin...
...collection of works mainly by Pablo Picasso, Andre Derain and Henry Matisse, leaders of the modern art movement, will comprise the greater part of the second exhibition this year held by the Contemporary Art Society in its rooms on the second floor of the Coop building. The showing which begins on Friday and will continue for two weeks is open to all members of the University and to the general public, of modern...
...small exhibition of nineteenth and twentieth century French drawings and paintings. Several of these have been held over from last month's French Show, but a great many of them are anonymous loans - which have not previously appeared in the Fogg. Among these are drawings by Matisse, Degas, and Picasso. There is also a "Head" by Zak which was recently given to the Museum by Mr. A.C. Goodyear...