Word: sainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Still Life"?a bottle of wine, a bit of cheese, a dish of fruit?was damaged. Jean Louis Forain, of Paris, had painted it 50 years ago, lived with it, domesticated it. Sardonic, he had refused all prices for it. But gentle Homer Saint-Gaudens of Pittsburgh had won permission to exhibit the picture. Old Forain let it travel to the Carnegie International Exhibition, Manhattan...
...show last week a hanger-man plumped the picture in front of Mr. Saint-Gaudens, pointed. Between the cheese and wine was a ragged two-inch hole...
Horrified, Mr. Saint-Gaudens tried to compose a cable. Horrified, he thought of the terrible old man of the Comedie parisienne (250 better sketches, which had made the stupidities of the bourgeoisie forever as contemptible as they are ridiculous). He cabled: "Your picture damaged. May we repair it or may we exhibit not-withstanding damage...
Hours passed. Brutal Forain caricatures from the pages of Figaro, Le Eire haunted the worried Saint-Gaudens. The irony of Daumier was nothing to that of his disciple, Forain, who became only more venomous with age. (He is now 73.) Came, at last, the reply: "I permit no one to touch my painting. Forain alone can repair that which has been damaged. Return the painting to me at once by first steamer...
Next day, gentle Saint-Gaudens sailed for France. Said he: "Forain is a very devil of a man and his anger is terrible to behold...