Word: salons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pablo Picasso's joining of the French Communist Party and the attack on his paintings at the Paris Autumn Salon (TIME, Oct. 16) were discussed last week in a Paris cable from TIME'S Correspondent Sherry Mangan. Excerpt...
Until the occupation, Picasso's politics, though pretty vague, were rather revolutionary than Stalinist. Obviously his formal party entry was long planned and delayed till the eve of the opening of the Salon d'Automne in order to make the maximum éclat...
...spectators were almost as arresting as the mannequins. One Parisienne wore black lace bobby socks with matching lace earrings. Others in towering electric blue or mustard yellow hats racked shiny bicycles in the marble lobby of Maggy Rouff's salon. Past a dead elevator (no electricity) they clattered on two-inch wooden soles up four flights of blue-carpeted stairs, sat down and glorified the gilt chairs in the long showroom. A sprinkling of WACs, a handful of beady-eyed U.S. officers lined the wall. Appraising eyes watched pretty, pert mannequins strut, simper, pirouette...
Pablo Picasso announced that he had joined the French Communist Party, two days later learned that 15 of his sensationally experimental paintings (on exhibition at the annual Salon d'Automne) had been torn down by a Parisian mob, which fled in true Parisian style before the police could identify anybody...
...Paris last week the name of Maillol was under a cloud. The aged sculptor had exhibited his work to Germans during the occupation. The huge Autumn Salon, which opened during the week, had sent him no invitation to contribute. Aristide Maillol had never followed public events or cared about politics. He refused even to discuss the war. He merely worked on in his Banyuls house, and when plaster became scarce he sent his son to ask the neighborhood dentists for more. In leisure moments, the old man listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain...