Word: sculptor
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...France they either buy or they don't buy; they don't pay you compliments. But in America they even say you are the best living sculptor, but they don't buy anything...
Baffled little Jacques Lipchitz was famed in pre-war Paris as the world's greatest cubist sculptor. He fled to the U.S. from Unoccupied France last summer with four of his ponderous bronze statues, no money. This week Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery presented his first U.S. show in six years. Cast in weird, glowering embryonic gobs whose lumpy lines suggested the random patterns of molten slag, Lipchitz's bronzes showed writhing subhuman and sub-animal figures. One, called Mother and Child, was a legless, stump-armed female torso, held by the neck in the ponderous grip...
Though many a well-known art collector has paid high prices for his lava-like statues, Sculptor Lipchitz is living from hand to mouth in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, worried because poverty and U.S. war priorities have deprived him of his favorite material: bronze. Lacking bronze, he will try wood for portrait heads and terra cotta for garden sculpture which he wistfully hopes the U.S. will want...
...Sculptor Maillol started sculpture seriously at the age of 40, when six months of blindness due to eyestrain forced him to give up his previous work as a tapestry designer and weaver. By the time World War I broke out, Aristide Maillol was already one of the best-known sculptors in France. His famed Action in Chains, a buxom female nude commemorating the French revolutionary Socialist Louis Auguste Blanqui, stood in Puget Theniers, near Grenoble. At his summer studio at Marly, near Paris, he was working on a memorial (another female figure) to France's great painter Paul Cezanne...
...tremor in her hands, is continually dropping his best casts on the floor and breaking them. His wife, a monumental peasant woman whom he married 46 years ago when she was a perfect model, now glowers jealously over every younger model that 80-year-old Sculptor Maillol brings home...