Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction was shared by urbane Semi-Abstractionist Rufino Tamayo who did the cover portrait.* Instead of the flamboyant, movie-star type he had envisaged, the artist found his subject "a most unglamorous girl of marvelous simplicity. From the beginning," he recalled of the sittings in his Cuernavaca weekend home, "she said we should talk in English because her mother was English and she preferred the maternal tongue. It was her own delightful way of telling me what I already knew-that my French is preposterous." He was delighted that Jeanne agreed to informal sittings, without makeup or hairdo, "because...
...cover painting, applying the principle of contrast, Boris Chaliapin used a Chou Dynasty (9th century B.C.) bronze tiger to symbolize China's military stance behind his portrait of the modern-dressed Foreign Minister Chen...
...King and His Court casts doubt on De Gaulle's infallibility, but it leaves no doubt of his ascendancy over the government and imagination of France. With little profundity--and little desire to be profound--Pierre Viansson-Ponte daubs a diverting portrait of a democratic reign and the motley entourage that supports...
...soon as I saw your pictures illustrating isometric exercises [Jan. 29], I thought of the painting Self-Portrait by John Kane in the Museum of Modern...
...Prize. Actually, of course, the painting belonged to the Pellerin family, which has already given five Cézannes to the Louvre (which has a total of 26). To sweeten the deal that allowed The Bathers to leave France, the Pellerins gave still another Cézanne, an 1868 portrait of a minor artist, Achille Emperaire, whose name is oddly stencilled on the canvas. Said a Culture Ministry official: "One would say that one was a counterpart to the other." Few Frenchmen were satisfied by what they thought a paltry pre-impressionist consolation prize by a man who laid down...