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...lives of famous artists to Mother Goose. When he was five and beginning to develop a style, his family took him along on a trip to Paris; Hasan could hardly be pried away from the museums. Once, in a burst of enthusiasm, he scaled up a pedestal to a Rodin bust, hugged & kissed it. His father was studying with Painter Andre Lhote at that time, and one day he took one of Hasan's pictures over to show the master. Lhote seized the painting, thinking it was the senior Kaptan's work. "At last," he exclaimed, "you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Turkish Delight | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...statues in London's Tate Gallery, none is more famed than Rodin's The Kiss. Rodin had three carvings made of his white-marble couple, and the one at the Tate is the last and best. There was a public furor in 1913 when its owner, a private collector named Edward Warren, lent it for exhibition in a Sussex town hall: local puritans draped a sheet over the nude figures. But since 1939, The Kiss has stood in prominent and honored display in the Tate's hall of sculpture. Britons are used to it now-and proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: England's Rodin | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Last week, with two months left to raise the money, Tate Director Sir John Rothenstein sadly reported that while scores of Britons had sent contributions, the total so far was only ?600. Sir John was planning one more appeal. Said he: "Rodin is perhaps the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo . . . This is the only Rodin marble in a public collection in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: England's Rodin | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...others are in Copenhagen's Carlsberg museum and Paris' Rodin Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: England's Rodin | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...such militant moderns as Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Laurens, and they too seem to be getting more natural-even Henry Moore's recent lumps and holes look more like people. Finally, Ritchie shows statues by two Italians who have worked from the beginning in the tradition of Rodin: Marino Marini, who does spraddle-legged horses and dumpy riders, and Giacomo Manzu, whose warmly human Child on Chair, of a relaxed and innocently nude young girl, was one of the exhibit's highlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Track Through the Jungle? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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