Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raoul Dufy is the 71-year-old granddaddy of modem chic. His personal blend of bright, carelessly smeared colors with shorthand draftsmanship is imitated in chichi perfume ads and fashion magazines month after month. Last week gallery-goers in Paris and Manhattan could see the real thing: paintings from Dufy's palsied but still brilliant hand and (in Paris) tapestries woven from his designs. The tapestries, reported Paris' Combat, were "a triumphal success . . . pure...
...happiest surprise of the show had come toward the end: the last quarter-acre proved that France was now enjoying a tapestry renaissance, sparked by Painter Jean Lurçat (TIME, June 24, 1946); Fellow Artists Raoul Dufy, Marcel Gromaire and Henri Matisse designed many of the new tapestries, and the traditional weavers of Aubusson executed them...
Teaching Fellows in Romance Languages: George T. Cushman; Frank T. Hebblethwaite; Seymour O. Simches; Leonard R. Muller. Instructor in Romance Languages and Literatures: Leroy C. Breunig, Jr. Instructor in Romance Languages and Literatures and Tutor: Raoul A. Pelmont. Instructor in Romance Languages: Abraham C. Keller. Teaching Fellow in Romance Languages and Literatures: Gunther Obstler...
Shortly before World War II, Lurçat had decided that to make good tapestries once again, Aubusson (285 miles directly south of Paris) needed a return to the good old days. He managed to interest a few fellow-artists (notably Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger and up-&-coming Paris Painter Marcel Gromaire) in making properly simple tapestry designs, hired four Aubusson weavers to work them out in the ancient way. Then came the German occupation. While his weavers labored, Lurçat became a leader in the French underground...
Bizet: Carmen (Rise Stevens, Nadine Conner, Raoul Jobin and Robert Weede, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, George Sebastian conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A pedestrian presentation, in which the best efforts are Stevens' Habanera and Baritone Robert Weede's bully Toreador Song. Performance: fair...