Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Sutherland's landscapes, the portrait had the hot, bright colors of the Riviera, where he lives much of the year. His landscapes, more than halfway abstract, showed things like grasshoppers hopping into scarlet immensities and bushes brandishing their thorns at green skies. The portrait was equally harsh. Posed against a livid yellow background, Maugham sat with folded arms beneath a fringe of tropical palms. His jut-jawed old face seemed to betray a struggle between pain and hauteur...
Taking his red-slippered ease in the garden of his Riviera villa last week, the frail, friendly painter thought he might do some more portraits: "Someone wants me to try a self-portrait and I've been putting it off and off. Now I rather think I'd like to have a go at it." Meanwhile he supposed he would go on filling his days with sketches of the surrounding landscape, and escorting his pretty wife to the Casino at Monte Carlo now and then in the evenings, for a spot of gambling...
...price of 5,500,000 francs ($16,500) was brought by 17th Century Adriaen Brouwer's Peasants' Meal, a scene as vulgar and unbelted as an after-supper belch. Anthony Van Dyck's forceful portrait of Engraver Paul Pontius went for $11,700; Jacob Ruysdael's cold but kindly Winter Scene for $9,600; Jan Steen's low-comedy Effects of Intemperance...
...three new books, non-pilgrims will have a chance to enjoy a less Olympian portrait. In Goethe: The Story of a Man, admirer Ludwig Lewisohn has assembled two enormous volumes of Goethiana, including letters, table talk, memoirs, extracts from Goethe's writings. In Goethe's World, Journalist Berthold Biermann has made a smaller, illustrated collection. Goethe's own story of his lively youth, Poetry and Truth, is also being published in time for the Aspen festival, in a new translation, the first in a century...
...painted Poet Eliot in 1938, had been chagrined to have the portrait rejected by the Royal Academy. This year, at 64, Lewis tried the same subject again, produced a picture that few would find either exciting or distasteful. When a TIME correspondent asked him to describe what he had done this time, Lewis obligingly sat down and wrote...