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...churned out commercially by one Fried Pal, among others; 3) The Paris Street, in cool colors with sharp edges, originated by Utrillo, but perpetuated by a more sober and less talented host of hacks; 4) the dashing watercolor of a horse race at Longchamp or a Riviera regatta, which Raoul Dufy invented and his younger brother Jean imitates in quantity...
...January 1952, De Lattre died of cancer. His successor, General Raoul Salan, was anxious to reduce casualties and so were his Cabinet superiors in Paris. Salan embalmed 140,000 men in 5,000,000 tons of concrete-some 10,000 forts, emplacements and bunkers up and down Indo-China. The Communists could not get at him. but neither could he get at the Communists. In May 1953, General Henri-Eugene Navarre took over. His plan: increase Bao Dai's army from 200,000 to 500,000 so it could watch the quiet areas while he, Navarre, went after...
...never thought that TIME would print, and in color, a picture for which I posed. But you very obligingly did so with your Dufy lithograph in the Dec. 14 issue. When I was a drama student in Paris, early in 1937, I was asked if I would pose for Raoul Dufy in his Montmartre atelier for a picture to go into the soon-to-open International Exposition. I gladly accepted, and found that I was to be Archimedes [see cut] in what a studio aide called une peinture qui sera vraiment extraordinaire. Dufy frocked me in a white toga-like...
...largest paintings of modern times was the gigantic mural done by the late Raoul Dufy for the pavilion of electricity at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. The finished work, depicting the history and importance of electricity from the earliest philosophers to the 20th century, was 197 feet wide and 33 feet high. Dufy christened it La Fée Electricité (The Fairy Electricity...
Perhaps director Raoul Walsh considered Martin so fascinating that he wished a minimum of attention to be focused elsewhere. Martin is undoubtedly a remarkable and enigmatic character: a man who was seemingly a sincere spreader for the "little man everywhere" and yet was capable of calculating ruthlessness; one who drew people to him by his personal dynamism and then twisted and used them for his own purposes. Cagney's leonine, forceful acting paints a convincing picture of the figure who could drag a dying man onto the witness chair to further his own political ambitions...