Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...color, went for $360-though its Paris price ten years ago was around $30. The collection was a market sensation from Derain to Dufy, from Rouault to Renoir. It was strongest in works by Crowninshield's old friends, French Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac and French Sculptor Charles Despiau. Highest price of the auction was $7,250 for de Segonzac's vigorously painted French riverside with a church in the background, L'Eglise et La Marne, Champigny. Another notable price was $2,100 for Jules Pascin's Girl in Green and Rose...
Ginger Rogers was fashionable Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski's idea of the ideal model for a statue of the typical woman defense worker. He put her into plaster, standing on a pile of gears with a baby in one arm, a monkey wrench in the other. In her next movie, Lovet-Lorski's typical woman defense worker plays a typical woman defense worker...
Jerome Connor, Irish sculptor, was as elusive as an Irish moonbeam. In all the recent arts of Ireland there was no evanescence quite like his. He was the man who was going to carve a memorial to the dead of the Lusitania in the waterfront square of the town of Cobh, an easy gull's night from the Lusitania's ocean grave...
...friends, however, stoutly defended him. He was transparently, said they, an artist and a man of parts. They recalled that as a child he had gone from County Kerry to the U.S., where he had worked manfully as foundry-man, professional prize fighter, machinist, sign painter, stonecutter and, finally, sculptor. The versatile Connor also found time to serve as a Japanese intelligence officer in Mexico. But it was with the chisel that he really made his mark-most notably with the Nuns of the Battlefield tablet located in Washington, D.C. He was bound, his friends swore, to provide a superb...
Last month Jerome Connor vanished for the last time. At the age of 67, in a Dublin slum, he died. Last week, Jerome Connor's friends formed a committee to have his work completed by another sculptor in order to "save Ireland's honor...