Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME and LIFE Building. The artist was enchanted with the view of Manhattan, particularly the bright mosaics of neatly parked automobiles on the roofs below. "Très Chagall," he said, and wished he could paint them right then and there. Instead he ultimately agreed to do a self-portrait for the cover...
Along the way, the self-portrait developed its own problems. Chagall tried and abandoned nearly a dozen. Finally he achieved what he wanted -a pensive ink-and-crayon study of himself with palette and easel, at a window of his studio, the characteristic colors of his beloved Vence countryside in the background. When Senior Editor Cranston Jones had the cover story and the color pages of Chagall's work ready to go to press and the last points were being checked, the master decided that the experience was "one of the great events of my life." Having recently received...
...resignation and replacement by King Constantine with another Premier (TIME, July 23), George Papandreou, 77, staged a dramatic "return" t o Athens in a ten-mile motorcade from his country villa. A cheering crowd of 200,000 lined the streets, bus tops, and rooftops, many waving his portrait wreathed in laurels and suggesting to the fallen hero that "a new irreconcilable struggle" had begun in Greece. "Who rules this country today? The King or the people?" he asked. Enthusiastically, the crowd responded, "We want a plebiscite. Unity! Papandreou! Down with the puppet government...
...Berlin, then war broke out leaving his work cached in Paris and Berlin. Once home, he married his childhood sweetheart, the darkly sensual Bella Rosenfeld, Moscow-educated daughter of a wealthy merchant. It was the great love of his life, and he celebrated it in his exuberant 1918 Double Portrait with a Wineglass, in which a violet-stockinged Bella holds the artist up in the air, lifting him joyously above the streets, while an angel representing their daughter Ida hovers overhead...
...Artzy" created 219 TIME covers over the past 24 years. Though he will perhaps be best remembered for his anthropomorphic machines, he was a first-rate portraitist, with a sharp, spare style and, above all, a knowing wit. His last cover portrait-of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh-appeared on last week's issue, and was on newsstands around the world when he died. His first TIME covers were done in June of 1941, and were soon followed by a memorable series of wartime portraits, including the classic view of Germany's Admiral Karl Doenitz...