Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweet Music (Warner) is Rudy Vallee's most successful venture into cinema. Perceiving that the flaw in his previous productions was the fact that they required him to act, the authors of this one carefully made its hero, Skip Houston, a complimentary portrait of Vallee himself. Consequently, between songs, he is required to do little more than give an imitation of himself which he contrives to do successfully by smiling in a vacuous way and speaking in a low, bland monotone...
...Marquisa de Pontejos, No.1 Goya in the U. S., is a portrait of a lady with a bouffant skirt, a single rose and a lively little pug dog. It was last seen publicly in Madrid in 1928 when Mr. Mellon lent it to the great Goya Centennial Exposition. Carman Messmore of the Knoedler Galleries calls it "probably the finest Goya in the world...
Rembrandt's Self Portrait is one of that Dutchman's few works whose authenticity has never been questioned. In his varying fortunes he used to paint himself either when he was too poor to hire a model or when he wanted to display his sudden riches on canvas. Mr. Mellon's Rembrandt shows the artist when he was not rolling in wealth...
Titian's Toilet of Venus came from the Hermitage Museum, too, and cost Mr. Mellon $544,320. Painted about 1565, showing a half-nude, buxom Venetian blonde gazing into a mirror supported by cupids, it is supposed to be a portrait of Artist Titian's daughter Lavinia...
Lincoln Kirstein's article on photography shows a keen awareness of the inherent limitations of the art, and the dangers to which it is likely to be a prey when it tries to peach on the preserves of landscape or portrait painting...