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Died. Eugene Speicher, 79, peerless U.S. portraitist, a robust, orderly New Yorker who imposed his own stamp of warm-hued repose-at its best in his pinky luminous nudes-on all his subjects from Katharine Cornell as Candida to country bumpkins; after a long illness; in Woodstock, N.Y., where in 1907 he founded an art colony with his close friend, Artist George Bellows...
Flocking to Australia's first major auction of the works of Portraitist (and TIME Cover Artist) William Dobell, eager Sydney art lovers anted up $116,730 for 36 paintings that Dobell himself had originally peddled for a total of $1,300. Conceding that "two-or maybe five-of them are pictures of which I am not ashamed," Dobell was nonetheless astounded at his new rating in the art market. His first reaction: "People must have more money than sense." As abruptly as he had jettisoned them three years ago, Monaco's absolutist Prince Rainier III, 38, restored...
...painted, after seven hours of sittings, by Rene Robert Bouche, whose first TIME cover this is. An artist long familiar in the pages of Vogue, Bouche was described by TIME, on the occasion of his last one-man gallery show in Manhattan in October 1959, as the most fashionable portraitist now active. Bouche himself calls his paintings "loving criticisms...
...Portraitist's Protest. By the time Lorrain died in Rome in 1682, all France had become the servant of Louis XIV, then halfway through his 72-year reign. The function of the artist was to glorify the Sun King, often as a Roman emperor or a god; and the King had his own esthetic dictator to see that this was done...
Breaking the rules naturally became the sly ambition of the more skilled and spirited artists. One such was Hyacinthe Rigaud, portraitist of the Marquis de Dangeau. Rigaud's primary purpose was obviously to flatter, but in so doing he threw all of Le Brun's strictures out the window. Voluptuous draperies billow in the background in the manner of Rubens. The gold and glitter become a feast not for the mind but the eye; color dominates form, and classicism surrenders to baroque self-indulgence. In few works of art was Louis' age of splendor shown up more...