Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Woman with a Hat (see color). Sarah grew to love the painting, happened to be in the gallery a few days later when Matisse made his one and only visit. Sarah soon found herself in deep conversation with the painter, who told her that the painting was actually a portrait of his wife, and that she had worn a black dress when posing. "Matisse created that symphony of color," Sarah told friends later...
...Brother, Ernest Hemingway, by Leicester Hemingway. This account by the novelist's kid brother adds warm flesh tones to the increasingly detailed portrait of Hemingway...
...Assembly, O'Hara is at his best in "The Cellar Domain," a portrait of the tight, status-conscious little world of Peter Durant's barber shop, and the tale of its destruction. Durant, the head barber, runs his miniature community with a social-register sense of propriety. Certain customers get preference over others, and some are told, when they begin to realize they are being ignored, "Better go down the street. You got a good barber down towards the rail-road station." Those who finally make the inner circle are fitted for the symbol of acceptance--a $2 beer...
...have given him in life, women have been some thing of a cross to the fame of Jacques-Louis David, the painter-prophet of the French Revolution. Eleven years ago, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the unhappy fact that one of its most popular paintings - a portrait of a young woman, attributed to David and valued at some $100,000 - was not by David at all. The real artist was Constance Marie Charpentier, an obscure but obviously admiring David follower. Last week, David was in the news again. In the scholarly French review Gazette des Beaux-Arts...
After noting certain stylistic deficiencies in the portrait of the young woman. Ster ling found documentation in the form of an obscure album containing drawings of every single painting exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1801. David had boycotted the exhibition - but the album contained several works by Constance Charpentier that year, including the painting thought to have been a David. Recently Dealer Wildenstein went back to the same al bum, which also includes sketches for the Salon of 1804. There he came upon the Frick's David under "Painting No. 114." But the legend in the catalogue read...