Word: satyrical
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...fabulous painting which scandalized the '80s was seen in public last week for the first time since 1901. In Manhattan's Durand-Ruel Galleries visitors could look upon Adolphe William Bouguereau's nearly 12-ft. masterpiece, Nymphs and Satyr. A quartet of ripe, naked maidens prancing around a preoccupied faun was for 24 years the despair of Victorian moralists and the delight of the clubmen who crowded Manhattan's Hoffman House...
...after the death of Owner Edward S. Stokes,* the Hoffman House's art treasures (valued around $200,000) were sold. Nymphs and Satyr vanished until last year, when Durand-Ruel Director Herbert H. Elfers stumbled on the legendary canvas in a Manhattan warehouse. Today it is anonymously owned...
Legend says that when P. T. Barnum, James Gordon Bennett, Edwin Booth or Colonel Joe ("Gin") Rickey began to brim over at the Hoffman, Bouguereau's girls came to life. In 1934 a smaller Nymphs and Satyr appeared in Trenton, N.J.'s Stacy-Trent Hotel, where novices are told that on the stroke of midnight the picture turns around, reveals the nymphs to better advantage. Robert R. Meyer, owner of the smaller painting, thinks that Bouguereau may have painted a second, but has not proved...
...year-old artist, brush in hand, died of a heart attack. Last week one Felix Napoleon Gerson of Philadelphia wrote the New York Times that when he attempted one evening in 1883, to stare at the Nymphs and Satyr and use the Hoffman House alcohol cigaret lighter at the same time, the bartender called to him: "Say, young fellow, don't light your nose...
...Ample proof that 1942's term of "wolf" for a determined satyr is not new. Wrote a visitor to White Sulphur in the 1830s: "Unless you be young and foolish, fond of noise and nonsense, frolic and fun, wine and wassail, sleepless nights and days of headache, avoid Wolf...