Word: self-portrait
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George Bernard Shaw, free of charge, presented Manhattan Caricaturist Jack Rosen with an original self-portrait of G. B. Shaw in a top hat - scrawled on top of a caricature which Rosen had sent him (see cut). Said Shaw in a dedicatory note on the back: "Your caricature is a stupid one. When you are caricaturing a brain worker make his forehead nine-tenths of the picture." Reproved, Rosen tried again...
...copying documents, each week gave his pay envelope to his mother, unopened. He went on to the Naval Academy, where he was a popular mediocrity. He finished at the centre of his class - 60th among 125 cadets. At 21 he wrote, in clumsy, inept calligraphy, a pathetic little self-portrait: "My strongest characteristic: gluttony-I never get enough to eat. My credo: self-respect-I believe in myself. My weak points: none. My favorite book: Momotaro [a heroic fairy tale]. My favorite dish: boiled millet and soup with dry leeks [a poor peasant food...
...Dyck's 20 portrait etchings. Sent over by the Belgian Government to buy the entire Van Dyck set was Dealer Richard H. Zinser. He made a group bid of $28,000 'for them, saw them knocked down individually for a total of $40,500. The Van Dyck self-portrait he lost to Knoedler's at $6,600. For Rembrandt's The Three Trees Dealer Zinser paid $6,700, top price of the sale...
Inspiration of Clisson et Eugénie was Napoleon's love affair with Désirée Clary, who later married his Marshal, Bernadotte, and became Queen of Sweden. A self-portrait opens the amazingly foresighted story: "Clisson was born for war. . . . He was meditating on the principles of the military art at a time when those of his age were at school and chasing after girls. . . ." Brooding because his greatness of soul escaped general notice, he sometimes "passed whole hours meditating in the depths of the woods . . . deep in reverie, by the light of the silver star...
...Paderewski, is one place where estheticism and the laboratory spirit are not considered synonymous with general debility. And so it has been perfectly natural for Edward Smigly-Rydz to keep up his painting. One of the works of which the clean-shaven, egg-bald General is proudest is a self-portrait, with a beard and a shock of hair...