Word: picasso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cluttered gallery on Rue Laffitte in Paris, stacked floor to ceiling with rolled canvases and folios of prints, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse had their first one-man shows. (Cézanne was 53 when Vollard "discovered" him in 1892 by buying five oils at auction for a paltry 900-odd francs.) Buying cheap and selling dear, he got in on the ground floor of Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir and Chagall as well. He then ploughed his fortune back into the publication of artists' prints and deluxe editions of texts classical and modern...
...bookkeeping was vague, his meanness unpleasant-it was Vollard who kept Gauguin on short rations in Tahiti-and his narcissism immense. "The most beautiful woman who ever lived," said Picasso, "never had her portrait painted, drawn or engraved more often than Vollard-by Cézanne, Renoir, Roussel, Bonnard, Forain, almost everybody in fact. He had the vanity of a woman, that man." But he also had an exquisitely tuned eye and a great deal of patience; the combination enabled Vollard, as publisher, to master the innumerable problems involved in producing major collaborations between artist and text...
...good company," gloated Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell. As the latest artist to create a wine label for the renowned French vintner Baron Philippe de Rothschild, 75, Motherwell joined the ranks of Picasso, Chagall, Miro and Braque. Titled Les Caves (the wine cellars), his design is a "primordial image," he explained as he signed and numbered the labels on a dozen bottles of 1974 Chateau Mouton Rothschild in Manhattan. "Chagall and Braque did joyful symbols, but I have a much deeper feeling about wine," said Motherwell, who received 16 cases of Mouton (approximate value: $5,000) for his labors...
...ground, the bombers unloaded some 100,000 lbs. of high-explosive, fragmentation and incendiary bombs on a small Basque town in the green hills of northern Spain. When the bombers left, a town had been smashed to rubble, but a symbol was born-still evoked for many by Pablo Picasso's best-known and most terrifying canvas...
Welles crosses the screen, his foot-long cigar perched between his lips, and booms: "Picasso once said 'Truth is a Lie. A lie,'" he adds, 'which helps to understand reality.'" Take that detractors...