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Died. Maurice Utrillo, 71, famed French painter of Paris street scenes and landscapes; of pneumonia; in Dax, France. Born in Montmartre, Utrillo was the bastard son of talented, scatterbrained Suzanne Valadon, who had worked as a circus acrobat, a model for Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, and was later a top painter herself. An heir to the worst ills of bohemianism (legend has it that he was fathered by Renoir, Degas, or an alcoholic paint dauber named Boissy), Utrillo drank absinthe in his teens, was an alcoholic at 18, began painting in 1902 at the behest of his mother to keep...
...late and rises late. Usually he prepares his own breakfast-an unappetizing bowl of strained oatmeal and a glass of milk which, he hopes, are good for his ulcer-and eats in the white-walled living room decorated with two portraits of his tall, attractive wife and a Renoir landscape that Ed gave Sylvia this year for their 25th wedding anniversary. Then he lights the first of the day's many cigarettes and is ready for the phone calls that his secretaries, Carmine Santullo and Jean Bombard, have been holding at bay all morning. When Ed is not scheduled...
...lengthy procedures have caused undue mental and emotional distress to many workers unfairly accused of disloyalty. One case involves a Post Office employee who was suspended without pay for "hanging Communist art in his home." Investigation showed that the individual was guilty of appreciating the work of Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, and others...
Case No. 107, a substitute postal clerk, was accused, among other things, of having Communist art hung on the wall of his home. At his hearing, the employee said he owned reproductions of Picasso, Matisse, Renoir and Modigliani. He was rated ineligible for permanent Civil Service appointment and barred from competing in Civil Service examinations for three years...
Refreshment for the Eye. A tailor's son, Renoir went to work at 14, painting teacups. Chances are he even enjoyed that, as he certainly enjoyed the rest of his increasingly successful career. Long before he died, some of his canvases were selling at five-figure prices. He painted about 4,000, of which half are now in U.S. collections. Every one has to do with the good things of life, particularly the loveliness of women, children and flowers. They are the work of a simple man with extraordinary command of his craft, who aimed to please...