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DIED. Isaac Soyer, 79, Russian-born painter and the youngest of three artist brothers (the others: Raphael and Moses), who shunned abstraction to portray New York street scenes and working-class people in a style of lyrical realism; in New York City...
...were said to be worth the equivalent of $200,000 in subsidies and perks over a member's lifetime. One side benefit: a generous allotment of Centre Court tickets that could be scalped for up to $1,200 apiece before the finals. Summed up London Observer Columnist Adam Raphael: "There is no reason why the members of the All England Club should live off the backs of English tennis players...
...villainous goblins are revealed as babies, but in the author's view this makes them no less terrifying: What could be more incessant and demanding than an infant? At each turn, Sendak provides illustrations that refer to-and bear comparison, with-the putti of Raphael, Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks and the entire school of German Romanticism. The sprung rhythms of the text and the richly allusive paintings do not make Outside Over There inappropriate for children. Even the very young can appreciate the work on its outer level. But only adults can wholly understand...
LOST IN AMERICA by Isaac Bashevis Singer Illustrations by Raphael Soyer Doubleday; 259 pages...
...were the three greatest draftsmen in the history of Western art? There would be room for argument at the lower end of the ranking (Dürer? Raphael? Ingres?). But of the first two there can be little doubt. One was Michelangelo; the other was Leonardo da Vinci. The bastard son of a Florentine notary, Leonardo was born in 1452 and died in 1519. Almost from the moment that he emerged from Verrocchio's workshop in the 1470s and began his long, peripatetic and disappointed life among the courts of Rome, Milan, France and his home town, Florence...