Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens went for $23,500 (to Broker Chester Dale, who has spent over $6,000,000 for French and American paintings). Other buyers (mostly anonymous) paid $30,000 for one Toulouse-Lautrec, $27,500 for another. A Corot went for $18,000; a Cezanne portrait of his wife for $24,500; a view of the Seine by Daumier for $15,250, and one by Monet for $11,000; a Renoir nude sold for $12,000. Total evening's business: $221,500 for 20 paintings, almost double what art experts expected the lot to sell...
Hijacking? On reading Ben Fairless' reply, Phil Murray waxed loquacious. He called newsmen to the green-paneled conference room of C.I.O.'s Washington headquarters-where his portrait hangs alongside those of Jefferson and Lincoln-and issued a burning statement...
...Nose, Swan Shoulders. One of the best canvases in the show was Modigliani's portrait of his mistress Jeanne Hebuterne (see cut), who, big with child, committed suicide by jumping from a fifth floor window, after Modigliani died. From her wide, red-skirted hips to the top of her brown hair, the artist had turned his mistress into a slow, serpentine spiral, given her an other-worldly beauty which would be horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan...
...self-righteous neighbors, Delores Del Rio is beautiful. She has been deglamorized to the point of allowing a mole on the side of her nose to be photographed, but even in Hollywood her well-modeled face was never lovelier or more expressive. Visual beauty is the best thing about Portrait of Maria, which is the sort of picture that looks better in the lobby stills than it does on the screen. There are handsome shots of Lake Xochimilco and some well-photographed, well-directed crowd scenes. The picture's hero (Pedro Armendariz) is a good-looking, brooding peon...
Goya's sketches and paintings of his aristocratic mistress became world-famed. He painted Teresa spread voluptuously on a divan, draped in white silk and gave the portrait to her husband. Then he painted her nude in the same posture, and kept it for himself.* Sometimes the Duchess graciously sent Goya's family tasty, palace-cooked tidbits on gold plates. Sensible Señora Goya used to eat the tidbits and keep the plates. When the Inquisition put a sleuth on the lovers' tracks, Goya caught the sleuth and calmly skinned the soles of his feet with...