Word: satirists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Painter Maurice Sterne, who was a member of this year's jury of award. Conspicuously absent from the exhibition are the works of greatly famed artists. Among the well known names represented were: Sir John Lavery, who paints interiors, genre and Lady Lavery; Jean Louis Forain, famed French satirist; Bernard Boutet de Monvel, chic portraitist, one-time fashion artist for Publisher Condé Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair). Many of the painters are hitherto unknown to the U. S. One of them-Mme. Tamara de Lempicka -attracted much attention with her monotone grey Portrait of Doctor B(oucard), as meticulously...
...Satirist Streiff suggest a means, other than cancellation, by which international debts might be settled without international bankers...
...America who just paid $1,500 for a copy of Locke's 'Essay on Human Understanding.'" The "Essay" was advertised as being profusely annotated by Shaw. But the annotations were those of Shaw's father-in-law, Horace Payne-Townshend of Derry County, Cork. Satirist Shaw has never read the "Essay," and he does "not disfigure books by underlining them." His practice "is to make a very light dot in the margin with a pencil-tip and note the page number on the end of a slip of paper...
...black and white study of a city street at nightfall. The casual silhouettes were expressive of simple, mundane destinies. Paris was an oil painting of a lugubrious couple and a stein of beer. The malty futility of a sidewalk cafe existence is a familiar subject, but Satirist Soglow had handled it with distinction...
...Manhattan, last week, a town jester named Peter Arno held his first art exhibit. Artist Arno is a social satirist. Frothier, less pungent than such satirists as Beerbohm and Bateman, he nevertheless makes sprightly comments on violations of taste and decorum. He lies in wait for those moments when civilized people burst through their shimmering camouflage of gentlity and blatantly expose rage, sex, silliness...