Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...auction at Sotheby's in London last week, U.S. Collector Charles B. Wrightsman bought for $392,000 the Duke and Duchess of Leeds's portrait by Goya of the first Duke of Wellington. The auctioneer's gavel had hardly banged for the last time when a group of Tory M.P.s started a campaign to prevent Wrightsman from getting an export license-and that could mean, as it has with other purchasers, that Wrightsman might have to wait months before the government decides whether he can take his painting home, or must resell it in Britain at some...
...typical Cesti product, is the story of a skittish Egyptian queen who spurns all suitors because in her "breast love dwells not." But when a handsome shipwrecked sailor emerges from the sea, she becomes so unnerved that she 1) falls in love with him, 2) slashes to pieces a portrait he has painted of her. and 3) decides to marry him. Only then does she learn that he is a prince...
Among the latter are Cesanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat, Monet's Sunshine (Belle Isle), Gauguin's Portrait of Meyer de Haan, and the Bathers With a Turtle, by Matisse. Also in the collections are Picasso, Annibale Carracci, and Dubuffet...
TIME's cover this week is the second by René Bouché, who painted the recent Jean Kerr portrait. President Kennedy allowed him two short sittings ("not quite two hours") at the White House a few days before he took off for Paris. Bouché usually counts on three sittings of seven hours. "Of course," said he, "there were always people talking, and he never sat still." Bouché, who finished the portrait in his Manhattan studio, had met the President before. He painted Jackie three years ago, and did a portrait of her sister Lee at that...
...prayer, their huge, vacant eyes staring heavenward as if they themselves were in a trance. When it came to worship, all distinctions between rich and poor vanished, and the civilization was getting old before the individual presumed to proclaim himself. Even the greatest warrior hero, Sargon, left no known portrait behind him, and all the grand viziers of Sumer were made to look almost exactly alike...