Word: pignone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honorable mentions: Japan's Minoru Kawabata, 47; France's Edouard Pignon, 53; Canada's Jean-Paul Riopelle, 35; Portugal's Maria Helena Vieira da Silva...
...Paris publicity head of United States Lines), who scoots about in a 1924 Rolls, stuffs his mouth with diced raw beef like a kid gobbling popcorn. His self-dubbed "spontaneous creations" are flashy signatures squeezed in a frenzy straight from the paint tubes onto one-tone backgrounds. ¶ Edouard Pignon, who went from coal mining and a Citroen assembly line to painting Picasso-flavored landscapes, now adds a lyrical personal tempo to his semi-abstractions. A neat, natural talent whose 1957 oils convey the Mediterranean joy, light and life of a little resort near Marseilles, Pignon is currently on view...
...EDOUARD PIGNON, 50, a rugged son of a Pas-de-Calais miner, who likes to build up massive forms overflowing with a healthy sensuality. Pignon believes: "It is a question of massing, of warping the surface, and not of hollowing...
...Suez Canal and the Sudan. All the Arab states demanded an end to French rule of Morocco, even though the General Assembly's General Committee had voted against bringing up the subject in this session. When the Arabs persisted in discussing it, French Delegate Léon Pignon and his aides walked out. "The jackals are after us," admitted one British official sadly...
...planned to fly immediately to Indo-China, wield both political and military authority, which had been divided between High Commissioner Pignon and General Marcel Carpentier. A trim, tough disciplinarian, described by his colleagues as électrique, De Lattre has been chief of Western European land forces under the Brussels five-power defense union, soon to be superseded by the broader North Atlantic twelve-power pact...