Word: picasso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world was busy celebrating Pablo Picasso's 85th birthday last week. Some dozen exhibitions have opened from Lapland to the Los Angeles County Museum and Macy's department store in New York City. Bags full of mail and telegrams arrived at Mougins, a tiny town above the bay at Cannes on the French Riviera, where Picasso lives. Grateful citizens of Vallauris, the town Picasso resurrected by reviving its pottery industry, sent a huge bouquet of red roses with a white dove in a cage, and their children sent batches of their best crayon drawings. His wife Jacqueline...
...built this chapel to atone for 80 years of sins," says Foujita. He certainly gave himself opportunities to accumulate them. Descendant of a warlike samurai family, the Foujiwara (meaning "wild fields of wisteria"), the painter hobnobbed with Picasso, Apollinaire, Isadora Duncan and the catlike artists' model Kiki. Alexander Calder once exhibited his miniature circus at Foujita's soirees...
...also a priceless visual testament to the past. Seeing history in art fascinates Photographer Bradley Smith, who spent two years in Spain taking pictures of more than 235 art works, from the 20,000 B.C. cave paintings of Altamira to the present-day works of Miró and Picasso...
...goes on the block next month. Another newly discovered Rubens, an oil sketch for his Samson and Delilah, will join it for an estimated $140,000. Henry Ford II will take profits on Christie's block in December by selling off four works by Matisse, Signac, Vuillard and Picasso for upwards...
Died. Otto Spaeth, 69, industrialist and art patron who made a fortune in real estate and machine tools (Dayton Tool & Engineering Co.), used it to build a notable private art collection, including masterpieces by Braque, Picasso, Corot, Gauguin and Cezanne, but in recent years concentrated more on aiding lesser-known contemporary artists and working to improve church architecture through his Spaeth Foundation awards; of cancer; in Manhattan...