Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French Sculptor Henri Laurens was a self-effacing man who ordinarily preferred to let his articulate friends do the talking. But one night in 1930, as Art Dealer D. H. Kahnweiler recalls it, the conversation drifted around to the beauty of Marlene Dietrich. One of the group suggested that Marlene did not have beautiful thighs. "Too thick," he concluded. With a vehemence that shocked his friends, the mild-mannered Laurens leaped to Marlene's defense...
...emerged a delightfully sensuous modern. She was a siren, Dawn, Night, a symbol of all nature's most mysterious forces. Now, in a sweeping retrospective at Paris' Grand Palais com posed of 110 bronzes, plus terra cottas and drawings - all part of a grand gift from the sculptor's son Claude to the French nation - every Circean guise and symbolic posture that Laurens' woman assumed over the years is visible...
Cubes & Guitars. The show, in sum, is a mirror of modern French sculp ture. The son of a poor Parisian worker, Laurens began his career, after stud ies with a decorative sculptor, in a rundown house on a dead end Montmartre street. The year was 1911. Cub ism was in full flower, and Georges Braque lived only a few doors away...
...Laurens; in 1953, Laurens won the Sao Paulo Bienal's grand prize. He died of a heart attack a year later at the age of 69, and since then, through half a dozen major exhibitions, critics have waxed ever more enthusiastic, calling him the single most important French sculptor of the century. Plans call for the current monumental show to tour abroad for several years before returning home to rest in its own pavilion at Paris' projected Museum of the Twentieth Century...
BLACK COMEDY, the better half of two one-acters by British Playwright Peter Shaffer, provokes laughter with characters careening in the dark in a sculptor's studio when the lights blow...