Word: piet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar figure in England, where he stables his string of race horses. In Switzerland, where he spends several weeks a year, he is known as an expert skier. On two continents he is known as a knowledgeable art collector; he recently paid $300,000 for El Greco's Pietà. On the Riviera, Niarchos keeps a fleet of sports cars, to shuttle between his two Cap d'Antibes palaces, and two yachts: the black-hulled, 190-ft. schooner Creole (a 32-man crew) and "a little one," the 103-ft. Eros. Niarchos delights in packing celebrities...
...stovepipes" turned out by Britain's Reginald Butler, who "has no conception of form." He then invited his entourage of sculptors to debate or just plain chat with him. When all kept respectfully silent, Epstein happily began tossing his horns. One of his gratuitous victims: famed Dutch Abstractionist Piet Mondrian, whose linoleum-like linearities have floored museum walls for two decades. Said Sir Jacob flatly: "A faker!" A museum director murmured a shocked "Oh, no!" Epstein snapped: "An open mind is an empty mind." At last, carrying a bronze medal struck in his honor, Honorary Guildsman Epstein departed, telling...
...Belgian pavilion offered Surrealist René Magritte, whose charm lies in such odd notions as painting a night scene under a noonday sky. Less appealing was another major Belgian entry. Surrealist Paul Delvaux, whose careful rendering of a Crucifixion and a Pietá peopled entirely by skeletons seemed in needlessly bad taste...
That same evening, viewers in Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland also saw a 50-minute program telecast from the Vatican, including views of St. Peter's, of Michelangelo's Pietà in the basilica and of the Raphael rooms in the Vatican Museum. The show concluded in the Hall of the Consistory (where few viewers would ordinarily be permitted in person) for a brief address by the Pope in five languages...
...Netherlands' Piet Ouborg, who spent 20 years in Java, apparently returned with a head full of tropical dazzle. His haphazard Driving Away is the sort of painting that drives people away from abstractionism...